Nicholas Chao
Director Of Cloud Security & Platforms Center Of Excellence
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Chao is an Azure security architect and platform leader with 11 years of experience building secure, compliant cloud platforms for regulated enterprises. At TruBridge he drives cloud security strategy and governance as Platform Lead for the Cloud Center of Excellence, where his roadmap and automation efforts boosted policy compliance from ~15% to 65%+ and cut exceptions to near zero while saving up to $1.1M annually. He previously advised enterprise CIOs and CISOs at Microsoft on cloud and AI adoption and led high-risk, complex engagements that scaled reusable security frameworks across customers. Trained in security engineering with dual bachelors in computer engineering and mathematics, he blends deep technical hands-on architecture (Terraform/Ansible, identity and network design) with product-minded platform stewardship. Colleagues seek him for pragmatic risk decisions in the absence of a formal CISO, and he’s been recognized with the Microsoft US Hero Award and Raytheon Cyber Professional honor for accelerating compliance and operational security.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Security Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Security Engineering at Southern Methodist UniversitySingapore American School
Chinese, English
Github Skills (11)
azure10
microsoft-azure9
microsoft9
spring-boot5
spring5
java5
development-environment4
gitpod3
sdn3
networking3
virtual-network3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Nchaos/ResearchSMU
Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:494 commits, 286 PRs, 342 pushes in 7 months
spring-bootspringjavacse
Nchaos/NaaS
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
Development environment for Networking as a Service
Contributions:12 reviews, 35 PRs, 139 pushes in 2 months
gitpodnetworkingsdnas-a-servicevirtual-network
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