Nick Spiker
Decoder, Oracle
I climb things. I build things.
I fix things that shouldn't be fixable.
Spent two decades in telecommunications infrastructure learning how systems fail and how to solve problems with whatever's in reach. Now I'm rebuilding computational foundations—new arithmetic, new identity systems, new operating systems—because the current stack is borked. Everything open source!
I work mostly in spectral imaging, translating electromagnetic frequencies humans can't see into things they can. I maintain precision environments that most people would call overkill. I collect absurd engineering ratios. I can show up to literally any situation and figure out how to make it work 100% of the time, every time. Did you know that in a transatlantic fiber optic cable, the glass thread carrying the blinkies weighs less than a kilogram, but with all the protective layers and armoring, the complete cable weighs around 192,500 metric tons? That's a 250,000,000:1 ratio just to keep whales from breaking the internet.
When I'm not writing code I'm usually outdoors—skiing, hiking, swimming, hauling weird cameras into the wilderness. Sometimes all of the above.
Father of two. Relocating to New Zealand.
Building impossible things is kind of my thing.