Nick Stocks

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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Wellington from Mount Victoria · Photo by Pseudopanax

Independent projects

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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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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iOS · Prototype

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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AI · Inference testbed

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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AI tooling · Security

MCP Hub

A shared gateway for tool discovery, authentication, routing and inspection across MCP servers.

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AI tooling · Security

MCP Sandboxes

A managed execution environment for hosted MCP tools, with runtime isolation and controlled network access.

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Career

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.

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