Michal Nicpon
Software Engineer at Ardan Labs
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichal Nicpon is a software engineer based in Calgary with eight years of professional experience building backend systems and improving security for production platforms. He has a strong engineering foundation from a Chemical Engineering degree and hands-on research experience in spectroscopy and polymer/zeolite materials, which reflects a practical, analytical approach to problem solving beyond typical software roles. Michal has contributed security and authorization improvements to the well-known open-source FleetDM project and has experience hardening command-line tooling and webhook integrations. His career spans startups and established firms where he translated business requirements into reliable plugins and services, and he currently leads a research project on novel water-softening materials while developing software at Ardan Labs.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Chemical Engineering at University of Alberta
English, Polish
Github Skills (11)
endpoint-security10
it-security10
authorizations10
vulnerability-management10
go10
authorization10
security10
apidoc9
device-management9
api9
open-source8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fleetdm/fleet
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Open-source platform for IT, security, and infrastructure teams. (Linux, macOS, Chrome, Windows, cloud, data center)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:528 reviews, 144 commits, 109 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Michal primarily focused on enhancing the security and authorization mechanisms within the FleetDM platform. They addressed missing authorization checks in the queries spec endpoint by adding code to perform authorization checks when updating existing queries. The user also improved the security posture of fleetctl by printing version warnings to the users. Furthermore, the user updated the code in multiple files and fixed an issue in the vulnerabilities webhook.
operating-systemsriskcloud-securitytelemetryworkstations
fleetdm/michal-test
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Test repo for Michal
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
testingtest-repo
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