Nick Horelik

Nick first experienced the challenges of locating individuals in emergencies while volunteering in student services during college at Tufts University. These experiences led Nick to co-found RapidSOS to ensure that technology was never an impediment to emergency response.

Nick brings expertise in modern computing systems and data interfaces as well as modern IoT device developments, including cloud platform deployment logistics, and integrations with data platforms specific to smartphones and IoT devices - specifically as it pertains to integrations with emergency services from a security, reliability, and compliance standpoint. He has been an active participant in public safety standards-development working groups, and has personally architected the implementation of several NG functional elements that are delivering data to municipal emergency services networks today. Nick also routinely represents RapidSOS at NENA and EENA industry collaboration events, ensuring that RapidSOS's originating call applications, location information servers, and additional data repositories are tested to ensure interoperability.

Nick has a wide breadth of educational and professional experience, holding a BSc in chemical engineering with a minor in Mandarin Chinese from Tufts University, as well as a MSc and PhD in nuclear engineering with a minor in entrepreneurship from MIT. He has published on public policy while working for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, worked at the Oak Ridge and Argonne National Laboratories while developing highly-optimized parallel algorithms for nuclear reactor simulations on the Titan and Mira supercomputers, published in international conference proceedings and DOE technical reports, been primary system administrator on several MIT supercomputing clusters containing sensitive nuclear data, was one of the core developers of the MIT “BEAVRS” pressurized water reactor benchmark as well as the OpenMC open-source neutron transport code (at the time one of the most activ open-source Fortran projects on Github), and co-authored numerous patent applications related to modern technology uses in emergency services. Previously, he also worked at TerraPower, a Bill Gates and Khosla Ventures funded company.

Outside of coding, reading, thinking, and writing, Nick enjoys reading fantasy novels, hiking with his wife, cuddling with his cat, and daydreaming about the future of human space exploration.