Senior Software Engineer building developer platforms, AI infrastructure, and full-stack products.
At Bayer Crop Science, I built the Backstage internal developer platform from greenfield to maturity, serving 1,000+ developers across 30,000+ repositories. I also worked on the AI-Native Engineering team across the company-wide Cursor rollout, GitHub Copilot adoption, and Claude Code trials.
Today I'm building local-first Go infrastructure for software and knowledge ecosystems:
- Nicos Catalog — Apache-2.0 engine that makes a large software estate answerable: typed entities, BM25 search, relationship graphs, and drift gates that fail closed when reality and the catalog disagree. Runs against a 3,400+ entity production corpus.
- docs-puller — Apache-2.0 documentation retrieval with SQLite FTS5 and optional embeddings. Retrieval quality is measured by an eval suite you can rerun against pinned public pages and reproduce the published numbers (95.8% Hit@1 on the BM25 sample).
Primary stack: Go, TypeScript, React, React Native, Node.js, Python/FastAPI, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloudflare, RAG, and LLM integration.
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nstranquist




