Nick Shook

Nick Shook

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Technology attorney with 10+ years of practice across corporate law, regulatory compliance, and civil rights litigation. Licensed in Nevada, California, and Washington. Federal court admission in District of Nevada. Previously platform engineer at Apple Finance building enterprise AI/ML systems, currently technical educator in Apple Services teaching Swift programming. Combines legal practice with hands-on software development experience.

Experience

Neon Law

Reno, NV

Managing attorney

2014 - Present

  • Counseled clients on AI governance, algorithmic bias, and data privacy compliance (GDPR, CCPA).
  • Drafted software licensing and technology transfer agreements (SaaS, open source).
  • Advised 11 software companies on formation, equity, and commercial agreements.
  • Secured cannabis licenses and SEC broker-dealer licenses for regulated industry clients.
  • Won Slaughter v. State, Dep't of Corrections, No. 74447-COA (Nev. Ct. App.), establishing 8th Amendment prison conditions precedent.
  • Negotiated real estate and commercial lease transactions.
  • Performed 200+ hours annual pro bono (tenant rights, expungement, family law).
Corporate law AI governance Cannabis law Securities Civil rights

Apple

Seattle, WA

Technical educator

2025 - Present

  • Teach Swift programming and agentic development workflows to developers worldwide.
  • Developed curriculum for "Swift Server Fundamentals" and "Swift SRE" courses.
Swift Developer education Software licensing

Platform engineer

2021 - 2025

  • Built enterprise RAG and LLM infrastructure at Apple Finance.
  • Migrated 50 petabytes of sensitive financial information to the cloud.
  • Architected ML platforms processing sensitive financial data with GDPR, SOC2, and HIPAA compliance.
  • Reduced information retrieval time 80% through vector databases and semantic search.
  • Improved ML platform uptime from 97% to 99.999% through hybrid cloud and Kubernetes.
AI/ML Data privacy Platform engineering Technical due diligence

Dade Systems

Miami, FL

Platform engineer

2020 - 2021

  • Migrated fintech infrastructure to infrastructure-as-code while ensuring regulatory compliance.
  • Supported $50M monthly transactions on Azure Managed Kubernetes.
  • Achieved 99.5% uptime reliability.
Fintech Regulatory compliance Platform engineering

Verify Investor

Sherman Oaks, CA

Full-stack engineer

2014 - 2020

  • Led engineering for accredited investor verification platform navigating SEC regulations.
  • Adapted software to comply with changing SEC accredited investor requirements.
  • Verified 30,000+ individuals' accreditation status for securities offerings.
Securities law SEC compliance Fintech

Education

Juris Doctor

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

2013

Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric

University of California, Berkeley

2009

Bar admissions

Nevada (2014)

13400 • License

California (2021)

337252 • License

Washington (2025)

63446 • License

Contact

Practice areas

  • AI governance & ethics
  • Software licensing & IP
  • Corporate formation & M&A
  • Securities regulation (SEC)
  • Data privacy (GDPR/CCPA)
  • Real estate transactions
  • Civil rights litigation

Professional leadership

Vice-chair, Science & Technology Law Section

Nevada State Bar

Present

Member, Nevada Advertising Committee

Nevada State Bar

2019-2021

Skills

Technical expertise

AI/ML systems architecture Software development in Swift Cloud computing (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes) Data engineering Product management

Professional focus

  • AI regulation & ethics
  • Access to justice technology
  • Open source software licensing

Interests

  • Time with family
  • Yoga
  • Cooking
  • Travel
  • Astrology