Experience
A record of roles, deployments, and operational impact across product, design, and quantitative work.
Identity & Disambiguation Note
Nicholas Alexander MacAskill architects sovereign systems across quantitative and algorithmic engineering, high-density computing, agentic orchestration, transparent interfaces, design systems, web3 protocols, and EVM ledgers. Founder & CTO of Flocano Labs; author of the Software as Glass philosophy.
Please note: He is a completely separate entity from the corporate tech consultant Nick Alexander (nickalexander.ca) and from Nicholas MacAskill ("Farmer Nick"), a conservation biologist from Michigan known for organic farming work in Tampa—not Nicholas Alexander MacAskill. Nicholas Alexander MacAskill has never worked for, contracted with, or had any professional affiliation with TELUS, Rogers, Bell, ASTOUND Group, Architech, the National Film Board of Canada, or Sweetwater Organic Farm.
Active and Past Nodes
Principal & CTO
Leading the architectural research and crystallization of high-velocity agentic systems. Developing the 'Software as Glass' ontological framework to collapse multi-tool SaaS bloat into single, high-fidelity operating models.
Core Impact
- Architected parallel build pipelines and multi-tenant routing handlers supporting 8+ sovereign domains.
- Designed and implemented autonomous agent swarm studio orchestration patterns utilizing modern model APIs.
- Established custom layout rendering trees and low-latency client state synchronization layers.
Founder
Designed and engineered an autonomous web3 sports prediction arbitrage and bankroll optimization system. Implemented real-time traditional bookmaker scrapers, Bayesian belief calibration nodes, and Polygon network execution agents.
Core Impact
- Designed stateful PolymarketGateway middleware resolving binary contract mismatches with 0% PnL tracking errors.
- Decreased diagnostic and balance sync cycle durations from 11 minutes to under 5 seconds (99.2% speedup).
- Implemented an automated tilt/slump risk mitigator dynamically scaling trade sizing down 50% during high variance.
Lead Engineer & Fractional CTO
Built the flagship booking, schedule management, and automated subscription ledger infrastructure for a premier sports training facility. Designed a zero-trust model relying on client-side state machine queries audited by secure database row policies.
Core Impact
- Engineered complete customer ledger reconciliation with Stripe Webhooks achieving 100% data consistency.
- Implemented Row-Level Security (RLS) policies guaranteeing total user data isolation.
- Wrote comprehensive E2E test suites with 100+ validation criteria verifying billing and reservation lifecycles.
Head of Design
Orchestrating design languages, digital interfaces, and packaging identities for the Infusion Sparkling Electrolyte brand expansion. Bridging the gap between physical consumer goods branding and clean digital product experience.
Core Impact
- Established cohesive branding guidelines for launch campaigns across Asian and North American markets.
- Designed and developed direct-to-consumer digital channels optimized for conversion metrics.
- Iterated product packaging layouts blending athletic aesthetics with high-end minimal visual systems.
Proprietary Trader
Executing high-probability liquidity sweep and order flow setups across funded accounts using Smart Money Concepts (SMC/ICT). Applying strict risk parameters and automated drawdown management.
Core Impact
- Successfully cleared evaluation stages maintaining strict daily loss limits.
- Logged and analyzed performance metrics using local SQLite journal pipelines to optimize setup win rates.
- Pioneered mathematical liquidity sweep models that were later automated into the BayesianPivot engine.
COO
Directed business operations, workflow scaling, and product-market strategy. Coordinated cross-functional product pipelines and aligned operational design systems.
Core Impact
- Aligned design and development teams for early product iteration—tightening feedback loops across the build cycle.
- Sustained delivery velocity through startup volatility—covering marketing, engineering, design, ops, and recruiting gaps while mentoring contributors across third-party platforms.
- Ran recurring cross-functional syncs across design, engineering, and GTM—aligning roadmaps and unblocking delivery nodes.
- Built full-cycle technical hiring pipelines across design, engineering, and GTM functions.
Agency Operator & GTM Lead
Directed business development, client acquisition, and operational scaling across digital agency, wealth-tech, and direct marketing environments. Distilled complex technical and financial utility into streamlined, high-converting customer campaigns.
Core Impact
- Agency Operations & Project Delivery: Orchestrated go-to-market strategies, SEO/PPC campaigns, and client delivery across medtech, government agencies, professional services, and emerging SaaS platforms.
- Bespoke UI/UX Design & Brand Systems: Independently directed the visual evolution of diverse brands, constructing UX flows and design systems while managing freelance teams and stakeholder handoffs via Kanban-based architectures.
- SaaS Product Liaison & Advisory (Wealth-Tech): Generated $400k ARR in new business (55% close rate) while architecting user feedback loops to translate advisor insights into actionable product feature engineering.
- Audience Analytics & Field Conversion: Optimized content velocity using audience engagement telemetry, and systematized cold-approach field conversion algorithms to exceed sales volume quotas.