I am a geek. I grew up playing with test tubes and beakers, reading history and philosophy books, making model rockets, drawing just about everywhere, playing basketball, and tinkering with remote control cars and planes.

I have worked as a software engineer for over a decade and although C++ is my favorite plaything, I have many toys at my disposal which I use to do amazing things. I have developed just about everything - from server software that manages tens of thousands of users to kernel drivers and from caching software to accelerate hard drives using SSDs to shiny user interfaces.

My interests are diverse, but right now, they include storage and I/O acceleration, encryption and security, software protection, cryptography, optimization, digital currency systems and next-generation interactive software and input methods.

For an up-to-date résumé check out my LinkedIn profile. You can reach me by e-mail at nikb@bougalis.net.