Nil Mamano
Computer scientist, software engineer, author
DS&A.
Data Structures & Algorithms was my first passion. It brought me to the US as a PhD student. I co-authored 9 papers (190+ citations, if you want such metrics).
For me, the highlights were being cited by Knuth himself in TAOCP and co-authoring the sequel to Cracking the Coding Interview with Gayle McDowell et al.
Agentic Tooling.
I'm now absorbed in the question of how we work with agents. I aim to deconstruct the limitations we bought into when we accepted TUIs like Claude Code as the default.
I created isomux.com, a multi-user & multi-agent meta-harness (built in public), and started isomux.app, a hosting business around it (also built in public). I focus on bringing agents to non-technical users. My favorite feature is the personal-software suite.
I'm looking for my next opportunity in this space.
Some of my other projects include the Wall Game, the DSA Toolkit, and the Nil Pointers blog.
I also spent a few formative years at Google, but decided to leave because I realized I do my best work when I'm truly passionate about it.