Nicholas Ellul
Staff Security Engineer at Shakepay
Canada
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Top SchoolNicholas Ellul is a Staff Application Security Engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling security programs at high-growth products, currently focused on application security at Owner.com. He led and grew MetaMask’s AppSec team, turning its bug bounty into one of the largest web3 programs and helping secure ISO 27001 certification through a rigorous vulnerability management process. Comfortable shipping code and security tooling, he has automated SAST/SCA flows, integrated static analysis into PRs, and pioneered AI-agent driven approaches to speed remediation. Nicholas has deep hands-on background from platform reliability and web app work at Shopify to product security across blockchain applications, enabling him to bridge developer velocity with pragmatic risk decisions. He’s known for decentralizing security ownership—running security champions programs spanning 30+ teams—and for making security operable and measurable for engineering orgs. Based in Canada, he combines engineering craftsmanship with product-minded security leadership and an early adopter’s focus on AI to scale security outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Completion, Certificate of Completion at Shopify Dev DegreeBachelor's degree, Computer Science Honours, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science Honours at Carleton University
English, French
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Github Skills (103)
semgrep10
typescript-definitions10
security10
svg10
mobile-web10
xss10
javascript10
html-escape10
browser10
firefox10
qml10
mathml10
browser-extension10
opera10
typescript10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
NicholasEllul/Notify.Me
May 2020 - Apr 2022
Very hacky scrips that poll websites to notify me of something in stock. Runs on my Raspberry Pi.
Contributions:8 PRs, 21 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 11 months
inboxraspberry-pipythonraspberryruns
NicholasEllul/TwoPG
Jul 2016 - Sep 2018
Free Local Two Player iOS App
Contributions:6 PRs, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
playertwo-playeriosios-app
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