Open to advisory and build engagements via Sapphire Advisory
Nick Pinidiya — engineer of two transitions.
Energy and agentic AI are rewriting how the world works. I teach one, build with the other, and advise where they meet — guest faculty at AGSM (UNSW), building through qubit, after McKinsey and Oxford.
McKinsey → Oxford → AGSM faculty → builder · 2026+: ?
Four rooms — pick where to start.
The Grid
Batteries, markets, and the physics of the energy transition — writing plus a live readout of the Australian grid.
The Build
Agentic systems shipped and running: fusion, climatepulse, sidekick, and the open-source skills behind them.
The Classroom
What I teach at AGSM (UNSW): decarbonisation, financing the energy transition, and AI.
The Desk
Advisory through Sapphire — who I am, how I work, and how to engage.
Featured
Essay · 2025-06-25
Deep dive on battery cell chemistry, components and where innovation is headed
Electrochemistry, cell components, and why batteries end up multimodal — different chemistries matched to different jobs, not one super-chemistry.
Read the essayThe grid, right now.
NEM · Australia
reading the grid…
Now — 2026-07-19.
Sydney, July 2026. Teaching wrapped for the term; the build queue is full: fusion is taking client briefs, this site is going live, and the battery essays are migrating here from LinkedIn.
The full now page