👋 Hey, I am Nicco
I lead the infrastructure team at Flashbots, working at the intersection of blockchains and confidential compute.
This journal is a collection of notes on things I've learned, things I've broken, and things I'm still trying to understand.
Lately, much of that revolves around AI, privacy and confidential compute.
Leading the DevOps team; running confidential compute infrastructure that powers verifiable block building and MEV protection on Ethereum.
Founded the DevOps team; ran all the infrastructure behind the Osmosis decentralized exchange in the Cosmos ecosystem.
Managed fleets of Kubernetes clusters on cloud and bare metal for clients; contributed to the Fury Kubernetes Distribution and shilled GitOps in any way I could.
Trained and deployed deep learning models for computer vision tasks; optimized model inference on NVIDIA Jetson embedded devices using TensorRT.
Researched hardware-based accelerators for Convolutional Neural Networks on Xilinx FPGAs and AWS F1 instances.