Nicholas Pace
Distinguished Engineer at Penn State University
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Pace is a seasoned technology founder and executive with 11+ years of experience building and scaling secure, cloud-native platforms and AI-enabled products. As Founder and CEO/CTO of Latchfield and former VP at SAP, he blends hands-on engineering, cybersecurity leadership, and product strategy—having led a 130+ person AI security taskforce and authored SAP’s Generative AI Cybersecurity Strategy. He has a track record of driving large enterprise transformations at Cisco, launching global container platforms and developer education programs, and pivoting startups to successful exits. Nicholas pairs deep systems and ML familiarity (from Keras experiments to decision engines and explainable AI work like “Vulcan”) with pragmatic business acumen in fundraising, customer discovery, and operations. Known for teaching technical topics—from drone PID controllers to AI security—to wide audiences, he cultivates teams that learn quickly and ship responsibly. Based in the Raleigh-Durham area, he combines engineering breadth with a rare focus on explainability and risk reduction in AI deployments.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS Equivalency Information Technology, MS Equivalency Information Technology at AutodidacticismInformation Sciences and Technology, Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University
Github Skills (8)
manifest9
android-build5
vendor5
dual-sim4
lollipop2
android2
asus2
falcon1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
niropaROM/android_frameworks_base
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 comment in 11 months
NicholasPace/android_kernel_huawei_angler
Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
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