Froghaus Studios
Calm under pressure. Now shipping software.
Nick Marnocha is a JavaScript developer and AI builder in Huntington Beach, California, and a former CAL FIRE aerial operations manager and ocean lifeguard.
Projects
- OSIRIS: A wildfire aviation simulation with a Canvas 2D map, staged workflows, and live collaboration. All data is synthetic. (PUBLIC SOURCE)
- Accord: A tamper-evident co-parenting record. Edit one character and the SHA-256 chain shows exactly where it broke. (WORKING PROTOTYPE)
- SoCal Marine: A booking site for a boat service company, with photo upload, service pricing, and an interactive 3D engine lab. (CLIENT BUILD IN PROGRESS)
- Collectibles Marketplace: A peer-to-peer marketplace design covering held payments, offers, and fee modeling. Not yet shipped. (PRODUCT IN BUILD)
- X870E Analysis: A sourced model testing when a premium motherboard can defend its price across four buyer types. (INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS)
Experience
- Froghaus Studios, 2025 to now. An AI builder, JavaScript developer, and designer in Huntington Beach, bringing operator discipline to working prototypes and client builds.
- CAL FIRE, May 2020 to February 2024. Firefighter and EMT on the ground, aerial firefighting crews in the sky, helicopter and aircraft base manager.
- Seal Beach, May 2014 to June 2020. Six years guarding Seal Beach as an ocean lifeguard.
Education
- University of Alaska Fairbanks: B.S., Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 2020
- Western Governors University: B.S., Computer Science, enrolled
- Santa Ana College: A.S., Fire Science
Credentials
Google AI Professional Certificate, Anthropic AI Fluency, and AWS Generative AI and AI Agents with Amazon Bedrock.