NICOLAS RAMIREZ ENGINEERING × PRODUCT × PEOPLE

Technical roots.
Product mindset.
People first.

Hi, I’m Nicolas. A computer engineer turning complex challenges into thoughtful products—and bringing people together to make them happen.

Explore my work

NICOLAS / IN FOCUS

Engineer at heart.

From memory allocation to machine learning. I like knowing how things work.

A few sides of the same person. Try one.

EXPERIENCE ACROSSSanctuary AIOSI MaritimeBlackBerrySFU Blueprint

01 / SELECTED WORK

Ideas into impact.

From early discovery to delivery.
A few things I’ve helped move forward.

PRODUCT LEADERSHIP01

40+student builders.
Shared purpose.

DISCOVER → BUILD → GIVE BACK40+ builders. 3+ projects.

Software with community at its core.

Technology for good.

Leading product vision at SFU Blueprint, helping a student agency deliver software for nonprofits and local communities.

Explore SFU Blueprint +

As VP of Product Management, I oversaw 3+ Agile projects and connected client feedback, usability testing, and product roadmaps. AI-assisted prototyping workflows helped shorten stakeholder feedback cycles by 30%.

Product strategyDiscoveryCommunity

Visit the RAPS project ↗

CO-FOUNDER / PRODUCT MANAGER02

Proximo and fellow Venture Prize finalists at SFU

proximo↗Finding the way.
Starting with people.

LISTEN → VALIDATE → LAUNCH15+ customer interviews.

View the venture story and photo on LinkedIn.

From interviews to a venture.

A search and rescue mobile app shaped by customer discovery, product strategy, and hands-on engineering.

Explore Proximo +

15+ customer interviews informed personas, requirements, and success metrics. I helped build the Flutter tracking app and pitched the venture at the Coast Capital Venture Competition, earning a top-finalist placement and $5,000 award.

Customer discoveryFlutterGTM

View Proximo on LinkedIn ↗

AI / PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT03

Medi
Connect↗Less admin.
More connection.

EXPLORE → PROTOTYPE → ITERATETop 5 of 100+ teams.

A product vision made tangible at nwHacks.

Making room for care.

An AI-powered medical consultation transcription app, built with a multidisciplinary team at nwHacks 2025.

Explore MediConnect +

I led market analysis, product vision, and Figma wireframe iterations, working with designers and developers to translate the concept into a prototype using LLaMA, React, and Azure APIs. The team placed among the top five of 100+ teams for the TELUS sponsor prize.

AI productsPrototypingUX

View MediConnect on Devpost ↗

STRATEGY / CASE COMPETITION04

Nicolas with his Deloitte Community Case Competition consulting team

YMCAResearch to recommendation.
Story to stage.

RESEARCH → MODEL → PRESENTA 20-minute growth case.

Strategy grounded in community needs.

Deloitte Community Case Competition.

Built and presented a membership-growth strategy for YMCA BC with a multidisciplinary consulting team.

Explore the case +

Our October 2024 team combined market research, financial modelling, and structured storytelling into a practical set of recommendations and a compelling 20-minute presentation.

ConsultingFinancial modellingStorytelling

HANDS-ON / ENGINEERING

The code behind
the product mindset.

Selected personal and academic projects.
Explore the implementation on GitHub.

01 / WEB DEVELOPMENT

Amazonia

An Amazon-inspired e-commerce project connecting a React storefront to Firebase and Stripe. The checkout flow brings together basket state, payment integration, and order records.

ReactFirebaseStripe

Explore Amazonia on GitHub ↗

02 / APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING

Hematopoietic Cell Classification

A team research project exploring convolutional neural networks for white blood cell classification. Includes training, evaluation, prediction, data augmentation, and saved model weights.

PythonTensorFlowKeras

Explore cell classification on GitHub ↗

03 / DATABASE SYSTEMS

Library Management Application

A Python and SQLite command-line application for finding, borrowing, returning, and donating library items, plus event registration. Connects everyday workflows to relational data modeling.

PythonSQLiteData modeling

Explore the library application on GitHub ↗

04 / SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING

Custom Memory Allocator

A C systems project exploring First Fit, Best Fit, and Worst Fit allocation. Works with free and allocated block lists, deallocation, and memory statistics to examine memory-management trade-offs.

CMemory managementOperating systems

Explore the memory allocator on GitHub ↗

Browse all repositories ↗

02 / THE JOURNEY

Big systems.
Shared ambition.

I work at the intersection of technical
complexity and cross-functional delivery.

Sanctuary AITechnical Program Management InternJAN – APR 2026+

Turned ambiguous humanoid robotics objectives into milestones, timelines, and clear ownership across hardware and physical AI teams. Brought deployment feedback into planning for future releases.

OSI Maritime SystemsTechnical Project Management InternAUG 2024 – DEC 2025+

Led a $20M vessel navigation hardware and software program. Built Power BI dashboards for inventory and procurement, supporting on-time production readiness and a 30% reduction in development costs.

SFU Faculty of Applied SciencesStudent Faculty AmbassadorMAY 2021 – DEC 2025+

Led workshops and conversations for prospective engineering students on academics, internships, career paths, and public speaking, helping students navigate the transition into university.

BlackBerryTechnical Project Management Intern · IVYSEP – DEC 2023+

Coordinated embedded IoT cybersecurity development and dependencies with AWS partners. Developed a Kanban process proposal that reduced program delays by 25%.

Biomedical Optics Research GroupUndergraduate Student ResearcherSEP 2020 – APR 2021+

Helped develop autonomous eye tracking for optical coherence tomography through microcontroller-controlled motors, PCB design, 3D modelling, and performance testing.

BlackBerry Waterloo office — BlackBerry · Waterloo office

Nicolas speaking with students at the Faculty of Applied Sciences entrance scholars reception — SFU · Entrance Scholars reception

Nicolas leading a Faculty of Applied Sciences campus tour — SFU · Campus tour leader

Nicolas with fellow Faculty of Applied Sciences ambassadors at a summer welcome day event — SFU · FAS welcome day

03 / LEADERSHIP & COMMUNITY

Building teams.
Giving back.

Product leadership, consulting, and advocacy
across campus and Canada.

SFU BLUEPRINT · 2025–PRESENT

VP Product Management

Built the student agency’s product function, mentored product managers, evaluated nonprofit proposals, and aligned product, engineering, and design teams around community outcomes.

AXIS CONSULTING · 2025

Senior Consultant

Developed strategy for a major real-estate developer through global market research and 10+ interviews with agents, brokers, portfolio managers, planners, and policy makers.

MCCP · 2025

Ranked 1st in cohort

Selected as one of 12 students from 100+ applicants; completed 30+ case interviews and researched more than ten industries through SFU’s consulting preparation program.

CFES · 2022

Advocacy Commissioner

Represented 85,000+ engineering students across 45 Canadian universities and brought student evidence to national accreditation discussions.

SFU ESSS · 2019–2021

President & VP External

Led student advocacy and support during COVID, represented SFU at 18 national conferences, and served as a voting member of CFES and WESST.

MEDICAL IMAGING · 2019

Student Volunteer

Supported the Functional Anatomical Image and Shape Analysis Lab by labelling MRI and fMRI landmarks for a medical-imaging research dataset.

Nicolas at the Engineers Canada offices in Ottawa with the CFES officer team — CFES · Engineers Canada, Ottawa

Nicolas kayaking at the CFES President's Meeting on Gambier Island — CFES · President's Meeting, Gambier Island

Nicolas representing SFU at the Conference on Sustainability in Engineering, University of Waterloo — CSE · University of Waterloo

Nicolas leading the SFU delegation at the Canadian Engineering Leadership Conference in Edmonton — CELC · Edmonton

03 / MORE THAN A ROLE

An engineer’s curiosity.
A builder’s instinct.

I’m a Computer Engineering honours graduate from Simon Fraser University. I’m drawn to the space where technology meets business: understanding what people need, figuring out what’s possible, and helping a team move together.

That’s taken me from robotics and embedded systems to student leadership, nonprofit software, and a semester studying product and project management in Singapore.

See my engineering projects ↓

04 / EDUCATION & GLOBAL LEARNING

Engineering at home.
Perspective abroad.

Technical foundations at SFU,
product perspective in Singapore.

Simon Fraser University

BASc. Computer Engineering (Honours), Co-op · April 2026
Engineering Science Student Society · MCCP, ranked 1st

National University of Singapore

Study Abroad · Product & Project Management · January–May 2024
Awarded more than $10,000 in exchange scholarships.

Nicolas beside the NUS sign at University Town — UTown @ NUS

Supertree Grove illuminated at night — Supertree Grove

Nicolas with Marina Bay Sands in the background — Marina Bay Sands

Sunset from Cinnamon College Residence — Cinnamon College sunset

Earlier global learning: a five-week French immersion at Université de Montréal through the Explore scholarship program.