Howdy! I'm Nick Hasty.

I'm VP of Product, Machine Learning at GIPHY, where I lead our Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence projects. I've been working on GIPHY since we started the company way back in 2013.

I do consulting for early-stage startups, helping them scale teams, build infrastructure, and identify product market fit.

I also speaek at conferences and on podcasts:

• Here's an interview (video) I did for the MLOps.community podcast in December 2023.
• Here's a presentation I did on intelligence, creativity, and AI/ML at The Conference in Malmo, Sweden in August, 2023.
• Here's a presentation I did for Betaworks GPT-What? conference in 2021.
• Here's an interview I did for the Practical AI podcast in 2019.
• Here an presentation I did on how GIFs work for Firstmark Code Driven back in 2016.

Before all that, I was Director of Technology of Rhizome at the New Museum in NYC, got my Master's from NYU's ITP program, and was an active musician for over 2 decades.

I live in Atlanta GA, enjoy reading speculative fiction & getting out in the woods, am married to Nancy Garcia, and the proud father of 2 daughters.

Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn.