Nelson Melo
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNelson Melo is a security-focused engineering leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building cloud-native systems and identity-first access platforms. As Co-Founder and Head of Solutions Engineering at Beyond Identity, he combines product sense with deep PKI and authentication expertise to drive zero-trust adoption and pragmatic security outcomes. Previously an early engineering hire at CommandScape, he became the resident PKI and Golang microservices expert, owning CA development, Kubernetes deployments, and HSM integrations. He’s comfortable across the stack—from IoT streaming and GraphQL backends to front-end React work—and frequently takes on SRE/DevOps responsibilities in production. An “auth nerd” by trade, his humor about Kerberos and JWTs belies a practical mastery of real-world identity problems. Based in New York, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with hands-on technical leadership to turn complex security requirements into deployable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
High School, High School at IPVCE V.I. LeninB.Sc Computer Science, B.Sc Computer Science at University of Havana
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (86)
identity10
api10
homekit10
go10
homebridge10
x5099
security9
ssh9
ca9
docker9
certificate-authority9
unirest9
api-rest9
kubernetes9
acme-server9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nmelo/initech
Mar 2026 - Jul 2026
An runtime for agents who collaborate with each other from one terminal. Optimized for steerability.
Contributions:5 releases, 3 PRs, 304 pushes in 3 months
beadsclaude-codemultiplexertmuxtui
nmelo/homebridge-lifx
Nov 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 2 months
lifxhomebridgehomekithomebridge-plugin
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