Code Wiki
Documentation generated from code, so it stays current. I built its agentic code indexing and its semantic search.
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NickGu
Do well. Do good.
What I mean by good
Impact is not a niche. Technology does good when it returns time and self-awareness to people, instead of taking them. Doing good can also be good business.
Chapter one
Learn
Four schools, three continents.
Before agents, I studied the brain. My doctorate connected human memory and cognition with machine learning, through neuroimaging.
| 2024 | Ph.D., Computational Neuroscience LMU Munich Dissertation: Spatiotemporal Regularities in the Brain | LMU Munich |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | M.S., Computer Science Columbia University | Columbia University |
| 2015 | B.S., Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology | Illinois Institute of Technology |
| 2014 | B.S., Intelligent Science & Technology Peking University | Peking University |
Chapter two
Create
Agents reliable enough to ship.
At Google, I lead the evaluation infrastructure that helps coding agents such as Gemini CLI improve. Before that, I built the test infrastructure for Android.
30% 85%
Task success of a browser agent, after a measurement-driven loop.
3 months 1 day
A cross-team Android migration, automated for 60+ teams.
100K+
Modules on the Android test-ownership service I built. It saves 3.2 engineer-years a year.
10k+
Agent evaluation tasks a day on BenchHub, the harness I built.
Internal at Google
Legion
A tool for automated code review and project maintenance. It is similar in spirit to Sentry's Seer.
Compare: Sentry Seer ↗Open source
HappyHerd
A governed runtime to launch, supervise, and resume coding agents across machines.
github.comChapter three
Empower
Teaching is the multiplier.
I teach Agentic Engineering at Columbia. I taught 7,000 Google engineers. I also help lead communities that create opportunities for others.
7,000
Google engineers taught
12,000 +
Learners in all
20,000 +
Members, Chinese Googler Network
8,000
Members, Pioneering Minds AI
Also serving
- Board, Pioneering Minds AI
- Global Lead, StratOps, Chinese Googler Network at Google
- Non-profit Engagement Champion, Google NYC
- Startup mentor and advisor, 2022–2024, Google for Startups
- Career & Network Committee, Columbia CAA
Four books changed me.
PeopleMachines Think Do
Unwavering Focus
Dandapani
What to Think About Machines That Think
John Brockman, editor
Ernst Pöppel wrote an essay in it and co-edited the book below.
Zeng Guofan: A Biography
Zhang Hongjie
Human Compatible
Stuart Russell
In print
- 2025 Principles for Building Planet-Scale Eco-Conscious Personal AI Assistants Chapter in Ecological Turn with Intelligence, edited by Maria Reinisch and Ernst Pöppel · World Scientific
Work with me
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