Nick Durand Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Cofounder, CIO, and Software Lead for OneCourt, a startup that aims to help the visually impaired experience sports. I oversee the software team and I manage several teammates, but I also work closely with the other different teams (hardware, design, business, etc). My specific software contributions include the entire backend infrastructure, firmware for our device, and demo software for competitions and user reasearch. To date, we have received several grants (such as Microsoft AI for Accessibility), started a project partnership with T-Mobile, and have begun work on early pilot programs with major sports leagues.

Greater Seattle Area

Graduate Research Assistant (RA) for the ICTD Lab at the Paul G. Allen School. Most of the research was centered on dAuth, a distributed authentication system for cellular networks. Also handled cell deployments and a variety of other projects.

Worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (TA) year-round at the Paul G. Allen School. TA'd for a variety of classes, both graduate and undergraduate.

Greater Seattle Area

I was a member of the admin staff for the McCarty Innovation and Learning Lab (MILL), an on-campus makerspace at the University of Washington. At start of the COVID-19 pandemic, I created over 1000 face shields for UW Medicine using the makerspace.

Worked as software engineering intern on the TxNotifications team of Amazon. The team manages many of the systems related to notification sending both internally and externally. I had a chance to contribute in many areas, from developing an internal system for checking new notifications, to making significant changes to notifications that impacted hundreds of millions of customers.

San Francisco Bay Area

Worked on the GRID (GPU Virtualization) sub-team of the NVIDIA Enterprise Software team. I developed a complex tool to help the team analyse and manage VM and hypervisor crashes. I gained experience across the board, from software development to customer interaction.

Undergraduate researcher for the ICTD lab at UW. Handled a variety of projects.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Engineering

Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering