Alaric Nightingale
Head Of Software Security Platform
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlaric Nightingale is a seasoned software security and infrastructure leader with 11 years of professional experience, currently heading the Software Security Platform at Bloomberg in London. He brings deep systems-level expertise in C and C++ on UNIX/Linux, progressing from software developer to team lead and senior management within Bloomberg over nearly two decades of tenure. Alaric combines hands-on engineering knowledge with strategic oversight of security platforms, operationalizing secure development at scale across complex financial systems. A Cambridge MA, he is notable for staying technically grounded while leading large teams—often preferring to prototype fixes himself to validate designs before wider rollout.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MA, MA at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (33)
proxy-server9
rabbitmq9
artemis8
queue8
broker8
rabbitmq-client8
amqp8
message-queue7
proxy7
code-editor7
neovim6
rust6
lua6
installer6
directories6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alaric/dirmux
Jul 2020 - Mar 2025
Run commands over multiple git repositories or directories
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 8 months
command-line-toolrepositoriesmultiple-gitdirectoriescommand-line
alaric/nortia.nvim
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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