Data systems and agent infrastructure.
I'm Nick Tran, a data and platform engineer based in New York City. I build and operate infrastructure for data, AI, and quantitative systems.
I've built data platforms in mortgage lending and insurance brokerage, and now work in wealth management. In 2025–2026 I also built Pine Peak Associates, an independent quantitative research platform.
- Based
- New York City
- Focus
- Data platforms · AI agent infrastructure
- Built
- Pine Peak Associates (2025–2026)
- Writing
- Data systems and AI agents
Featured writing
Writing & archive →Selected work
All work →- AI over governed enterprise dataMCP servers and Databricks Genie spaces over governed data, with access enforced in Unity Catalog and spaces deployed and evaluated through CI/CD.
- Data Lake buildout on AWS using DatabricksDev, Stage and Prod Databricks workspaces on AWS with Unity Catalog RBAC, federated sources, Lakebase apps and shared AI coding standards for the team.
- Pine Peak Associates research platformResearch and governance platform for systematic trading strategies, with gated research, server-side agent authority controls and no LLM in the critical path. No capital-affecting or production action without human approval; bounded autonomy inside evidence gates for research and paper trading.