Christopher Nielsen
Software Engineer - Infrastructure at Stealth Startup
Petaluma, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Nielsen is an infrastructure-focused software engineer with a 25-year background in systems, network, and security engineering and 15 years of focused experience in DevOps and SRE roles across startups and enterprise firms. Currently building infrastructure at a stealth startup after senior DevOps and SRE stints at Cloudbrink, Astra, Rambus, and Palo Alto Networks, he thrives on improving reliability, scalability, and security for production systems. He combines low-level networking and firewall experience with modern cloud-native practices, having led teams, mentored engineers, and contributed to cryptography-focused operations at Rambus. Based in Petaluma, he recently augmented his practical expertise with an MSc in Cybersecurity, reflecting a formal commitment to threat-aware infrastructure design. Colleagues count on him for pragmatic, auditable solutions that bridge legacy datacenter realities and contemporary cloud automation.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Applied Mathematics at San Francisco State UniversityMaster of Science - MS Cybersecurity , Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity at University of London
English
Github Skills (8)
post-quantum10
cloudflare-workers8
letsencrypt7
cloudflare7
go7
golang7
mercurial6
storage4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
m4dh4tt3r/monkey
Mar 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
m4dh4tt3r/astronomy
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
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