iOS · Health
Kora
I built Kora to sync Garmin watch data directly to Apple Health over Bluetooth, without an account or cloud service.
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Wellington, New Zealand
Nick Stocks
I’m an Associate Director in AI & Data at Deloitte New Zealand. My background is in cloud platform engineering and distributed databases. I also build iOS apps and work on running language models locally.
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AI · Local inference
Localweights
I publish quantised Qwen models in GGUF format for people running language models on their own hardware.
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Open Exchange
An economy simulation about running a company, building production chains and trading on a shared market. I’m prototyping isometric buildings drawn in Swift, with seeded variation for each plot.
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Real-time Avatar Generation
I’m building a pipeline to generate and stream a talking avatar as a conversation unfolds.
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Crucible
My local inference testbed for open-weight models. I use it to compare GPU offload, context memory and KV-cache behaviour on consumer hardware.
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Persistent AI Memory
Shared context across agents, sessions and projects, with hybrid search and a browsable knowledge graph.
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Data Loss Prevention
Inspect sensitive data in AI tool traffic, with configurable detection and redaction policies.
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MCP Hub
A shared gateway for tool discovery, authentication, routing and inspection across MCP servers.
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MCP Sandboxes
A managed execution environment for hosted MCP tools, with runtime isolation and controlled network access.
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Vulnerability Scanning
A staged pipeline for examining MCP server dependencies, source code and vulnerability findings.
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- Current
- Deloitte New Zealand Associate Director, AI & Data
- 2021–26
- JPMorgan Chase Executive Director, Cloud Platform. Led the engineering team behind an internal managed CockroachDB service on AWS.
- Earlier
- Forcepoint, Deloitte UK and Accenture Cloud migration, enterprise infrastructure and technology consulting.
Technical notes
- Benchmarking Qwen GGUF models locally
A practical way to compare quantisation, context memory and speculative decoding on the same hardware.