Nelson Melo
Co-Founder, Head Of Solutions Engineering at Beyond Identity
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
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at IPVCE V.I. LeninB.Sc Computer Science, B.Sc Computer Science at University of Havana
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (82)
identity10
libfdk-aac10
api10
x50910
kubernetes10
homekit10
acme-server10
siri10
homebridge10
docker10
lists10
authority10
security9
ssh9
ca9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nmelo/homebridge-lifx
Nov 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 2 months
lifxhomebridgehomekithomebridge-plugin
gobeyondidentity/developer-docs
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Source code for Beyond Identity's Developer Docs. Anyone is welcome to contribute.
Contributions:2 releases, 47 reviews, 310 commits in 7 months
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