Technologist, founder, and builder based in Melbourne.

I'm Nicolas. I co-founded Petal, where we build developer tools for the Elixir community. Our open source components have been downloaded more than 1.4 million times and run in production at companies like Woolworths. I also co-founded Wicked Sites, a studio building for Australian businesses, and these days I spend a lot of my time on AI and how it changes the way we build. Before all of this there were global startup events, a pandemic-born kindness marketplace, and a stint at the UN.

Border plasma, and a busy month on Petal Components

Since the playground shipped we have pushed nine releases in about a month. A glowing new border effect, a searchable select that fought back, and a lesson about z-index I should have known.

Rebuilding Petal Pro for an AI-first world

Petal Pro started as a Phoenix boilerplate with auth and billing baked in. v4 rethinks it around how people actually build now, with an agent in the loop from the first commit.

How I actually build now

I don't think of myself as a full-time developer. I think of myself as a technologist who ships. Here's what AI changed about the day-to-day, and what it didn't.

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Work

  1. Company
    Petal
    Role
    Co-Founder
    Date
  2. Company
    Wicked Sites
    Role
    Co-Founder
    Date
  3. Company
    Kindly
    Role
    Co-Founder
    Date
  4. Company
    Studychatr
    Role
    Founder
    Date
  5. Company
    Slush
    Role
    Head of International Operations
    Date
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