About

Dave Jimison loves inventing tech products and leading the teams that ship them. As Director of Innovation at Nullwest, he focuses on building practical, human-centered AI and software systems.

Over the past two decades, Dave has led the creative and engineering teams behind a run of firsts for U.S. media: Spotify's first Year in Review, Vice Media's first iPhone app, and MTV's first recommendation algorithm. That work has earned praise from the BBC and CNN and scorn from The Colbert Report.

Dave holds a doctorate in Digital Media from Georgia Tech and has taught as adjunct faculty at The New School, Cornish College, and CUNY Staten Island. He currently teaches a course through NWIRC that helps Washington workers build AI skills.

In his personal life, Dave's artistic practice spans robotic art, immersive installations, games, and live events. Dave was an Eyebeam fellow and resident, received a grant and exhibition from The Architectural League of New York, and has exhibited across the U.S. and Europe. His games have been exhibited at IndieCade, Come Out & Play, and Lowlands Festival in Amsterdam and published in a few books.

He lives in Bellingham, WA, with his family, two dogs, a cat, and four chickens.

Scott Johnson has spent most of his career as a founding or early engineer. As Director of Technology and a co-founder of Nullwest, he works across mobile applications, backend systems, and artificial intelligence (AI).

At Apple, he did machine-learning research on Siri; at Promethean, he was lead engineer for its U.S. division. As a founding engineer at Xembly, Scott architected one of the first-ever AI executive assistants used by Fortune 500 companies. His work at Xembly included a multiparty scheduling algorithm; the web application for calendaring and large language model (LLM) chat streaming; and a Slack app and Chrome extension. Earlier, at the satellite-communications firm OCENS, he filed a patent for compact content delivery over a restricted-bandwidth channel — a method for moving email and data over satellite phones.

Scott built Decipher Healthcare, an AI navigation platform backed by AI2 House at the Allen Institute for AI, designing a multi-agent system for insurance, billing, and medical-records questions and building it to meet HIPAA and SOC 2 requirements.

Scott holds a bachelor's in Computer Science and a master's in Data Analytics, both from Western Governors University. He lives in the Seattle area with two dogs, two cats, and a hundred spiders.

As Design Engineer at Nullwest, he handles every step from design ideation and wireframes to front-end integration, focusing on usability and functionality while maintaining consistent elegance and adherence to brand direction.

For over two decades, Alexandru has worked across product design, branding, editorial, web, type, and 3D. He designed large-scale design systems for customer-facing products and custom typefaces at both Google and Fitbit, served as Principal Product Designer at Trakt.tv across its mobile, TV, and web apps, and built digital experiences for Michelin-starred restaurants at Aleno in Zurich. His work has drawn an Awwwards Honorable Mention.

Alexandru holds a Google Project Management Professional Certificate, mentors UI/UX (user interface and user experience) designers, and is certified in Cinema 4D and Blender. He speaks fluent English, knows Spanish and Italian, and is a native Romanian who spends all his memorable evenings in Ibiza.