As a Microsoft ML engineer in the early days of the Azure X OpenAI partnership, Nick post-trained on top of frontier models like GPT-4 and GPT-5, often before they went public. He specializes in end-to-end model customization, honed in part as the eng lead for Azure's RL-as-a-service offering in 2025 and later as a post-training tech lead training models in-house within Microsoft's Superintelligence division. In early 2026, he left to found Whitney AI as its CTO, democratizing model training for every AI engineer without a science background, after seeing countless companies try and fail to do so with today's tools. He speaks on designing AI evaluations, practical post-training, and why owning your own intelligence matters in an economy increasingly shaped by a handful of labs.