Nick Karnik

Greater Seattle Area United States

Computer Scientist | Hacker | Entrepreneur | Ex-Microsoft | YC | Consultant

Technology / Software / Internet

Nick started programming at 10 and shortly after caught the entrepreneurial bug. Since graduating at 19 with a B.S. in Computer Science from University of Maryland, he has founded multiple startups. He was accepted at YCombinator, awarded the Investors Pick at Startup Weekend, and most recently worked on a TED talk that featured some of his work. While at Microsoft, Nick was recognized for his work at Bing with the Best Idea Award, a patent in Intelligent Intent Analysis from Social Network Messages, and a nomination for the Microsoft Engineering Excellence Award for creating the Big-Data Validation Framework. He is passionate about large-scale distributed systems, spatial data structur...