Nick Zelei

Nick Zelei is currently a Privacy Engineer at Grow Therapy and is based in San Francisco, California. He assumed this position following the July 2025 acquisition of Neosync, a Y Combinator-backed software infrastructure startup where he previously served as Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. Prior to his time at Neosync, Zelei worked as a Staff Software Engineer at Newfront, where he established and managed the company's Platform Engineering team as the business scaled from its Series B to Series D funding rounds. Outside of his primary corporate roles, he maintains an active GitHub presence for exploratory side projects and authors a technical blog covering software topics such as self-hosting. His professional background centers on developing scalable software infrastructure, with a current focus on advancing privacy engineering initiatives within the broader technology sector.