Nick Cherry — Engineer & Creative Technologist

Experience

2024—Now

Independent

Building , an original 3D game, through an AI-first pipeline: frontier models handle code, design documents, and art under close human direction.
Built and released Proof of Work (opens in a new tab), a social app where personal goals carry real financial stakes, using AI to verify progress and provide feedback—solo, end to end.
Other AI-powered experiments: generative merchandising, writing tools, and trading bots.

2021—2024

Farcaster Founding Engineer · second employee

Joined when the product was a rough desktop prototype; built the mobile app from scratch, then the web app and its frontend infrastructure as the network took off. The company raised $150M (opens in a new tab), led by Paradigm and a16z.

2017—2021

Coinbase Senior Backend Engineer → Staff Mobile Engineer

Hired as a backend engineer; became a driving force behind Coinbase’s shift to React Native (opens in a new tab), helping lead the rewrite of the flagship app for 56 million users.

2014—2017

CipherHealth Senior Developer

Patient-engagement software for hospitals. Deep Rails work, plus primary frontend engineer—Angular, then early React.

2007—2014

Earlier Work Flash Games, Marketing, Retail R&D

Flash games and interactive campaigns at FullSIX and OMGPOP; marketing sites and mobile apps at The Wonderfactory; retail concept prototypes at JCPenney’s six-person innovation lab.

Education

2009

Penn State University

B.S., Information Sciences & Technology