Nick Weiland

nickweiland@gmail.com | github.com/weilandia | linkedin.com/in/weilandia | Santa Cruz, CA

Experience

Govly - Founder, Product and Eng

2019 - Present | $0 to $3M+ ARR

Foundation: Solo Technical Founder (2019-2021)

  • Built entire product from zero as sole technical founder
  • Made all product, design, and technical architecture decisions
  • Wrote all code and established product-market fit through $1M ARR
  • Part of Y Combinator S21 batch

Growth: Technical Lead & Team Builder (2021-2023)

  • Scaled architecture and built engineering team while remaining hands-on
  • Continued leading all product and design decisions
  • Closed Series A with Insight Partners
  • Maintained technical ownership while establishing team processes

Scale: Scaling Team & Developing Leaders (2023-Present)

  • Scaled platform from Series A through $3M+ ARR
  • Shipped agentic platform that transformed market intel from reactive to proactive
  • Expanded direct-to-government market including DoD engagement
  • Scaled to SLED and international contracts, integrating 60k+ data sources
  • Grew team and developed leaders to make independent decisions

RaiseMe (2018-2019) - Software Engineer, edtech platform acquired by CampusLogic

Airbo (2016-2018) - Software Engineer → Lead Engineer, employee engagement platform

Epic Systems (2014-2015) - Implementation Consultant, healthcare software systems

Teach For America (2012-2014) - 6th Grade Math Teacher, Detroit public schools

Education

Master of Arts, Urban Pedagogy - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2014)

Bachelor of Arts, History - University of Nevada, Reno (2012)

Interests

Current Focus: LLMs and AI product development
Enjoy: Full-stack development, system architecture, helping people grow, building products
Approach: Language/framework agnostic - adapt to the right tool for the problem
Passion: Building products that solve real problems for real people