Hi, I'm Nicolas — a dual US-French citizen studying Computer Science with a Finance minor at NYU (class of 2027, Dean's List). This past summer I interned at Amazon Web Services in Seattle, where I helped ship an AI data connector all the way to General Availability on Bedrock.
I like building things that feel alive: custom game engines, high-frequency trading simulators, and friendly little mobile apps. Off the clock, you'll find me designing gameplay loops or squeezing microseconds out of an order book.
Experience
SDE Intern · Amazon Web Services
Seattle, WA · Jun – Aug 2026★ quest complete
Led design and implementation of the access configuration layer and 2LO authentication for an AI data connector, in Java and TypeScript.
Drove the connector from dev to General Availability on AWS Bedrock, working with senior and security engineers through code and design reviews.
Built unit and integration test suites across access config, crawling workflows, and end-to-end behavior — raising coverage to 95%.
Instrumented the service with CloudWatch dashboards, structured logging, and alarms.
AI Research Fellow · Handshake AI
New York, NY · Oct 2025 – May 2026★ quest complete
Evaluated image-generation outputs to improve model quality and alignment on Project Spectra.
Promoted to reviewer, enforcing labeling standards across distributed contributors.
Designed edge-case prompts to stress-test new models and surface failure modes.
SWE Intern · Mayflower Worlds
Raleigh, NC · May – Aug 2025★ quest complete
Migrated the store backend to PostgreSQL, unlocking scalable inventory and a 195% increase in ARPPU.
Built a React + Node dashboard giving the founders insight into spending and top products.
Led development of 30+ store products that drove 60% of company revenue (Jun–Jul).
Designed gameplay loops and incentive structures for 10,000+ players — 2× player retention.
Fixed 50+ multiplayer state-consistency bugs; occlusion culling and lightmap baking lifted FPS by 32%.
Projects
Ollama Market
A living stock-market simulation where LLM agents trade on randomly generated news. The Cython matching engine clears orders in 2 µs on average, with real-time text-to-speech commentary from Kokoro-82M.
A cozy productivity app for daily planning and habit tracking, with natural-language task entry shaped by research into real users' pain points. Prototyped fast with AI-assisted workflows and prepared for the App Store.
React NativeExpo
App Store bound
Pick My Bite
A restaurant-discovery app for the indecisive. Full-stack React Native with a serverless Node.js backend on AWS Lambda, plus location-based caching in PostgreSQL to keep Google API costs down.
React NativeAWS LambdaPostgreSQL
Rise of the AI
A 2D pixel platformer running on a game engine written from scratch in C++ — rendering, physics, and all. Naturally, this whole site is an homage to games like it.