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title: "Nick Tran · Data systems and agent infrastructure"
url: https://trannolis.com
description: "Engineer building data platforms and the infrastructure AI agents run on."
---

# Data systems and agent infrastructure.

I'm Nick Tran, working on data at a wealth management startup in New York. I build data platforms and the infrastructure AI agents run on.

Based

New York City

Focus

Data platforms · AI agent infrastructure

Current

Data at a wealth management startup

Writing

Data systems and AI agents

[Email me →](mailto:nick.tran@nyu.edu)

## Selected work

[All work →](/work)

-   [2024–2026AI over governed enterprise dataMCP servers and a Databricks Genie semantic layer over governed data, with access control and audit owned by engineering.MCP · Claude · Databricks · Unity Catalog](/work/ai-over-governed-data)
-   [2022–2026Data 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.AWS · Databricks · MLflow · Terraform](/work/data-lake-buildout)
-   [2025–2026Pine Peak research platformA financial data and research platform with audit trails, reproducible research and human approval on consequential actions.Python · Data platforms · AI agents](/work/pine-peak)

## Writing

-   [2026-08-29When Green Checks Lie](/when-green-checks-lie)
-   [2021-05-31Can We Predict Fake News?](/can-we-predict-fake-news)
-   [2021-05-30Machine Learning](/machine-learning)