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.
From 2025 to mid-2026 I built Pine Peak Associates, my independent engineering and quantitative research work, before joining a wealth management startup. Here I share technical notes, projects, and lessons from production.
- 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 a Databricks Genie semantic layer over governed data, with access control and audit owned by engineering.
- 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 platformA financial data and research platform with audit trails, reproducible research and human approval on consequential actions.