Nicholas Grove
Microsoft Global Speaker Bureau (Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Grove is a bilingual AI engineer and seasoned security technologist with 10+ years of experience shaping AI, endpoint, and cloud security strategy at global scale. As a Microsoft Global Speaker Bureau lead and Technical Program Manager, he advises C‑level audiences worldwide on AI transformation, Copilot+ PCs, and adversarial AI risks, influencing billions in stakeholder-driven revenue. He blends hands‑on technical leadership—driving Windows virtualization, Azure/OpenAI integrations, and AI platform/hardware strategy—with practical security engineering across model, application, and usage layers. A pragmatic open‑source back‑end contributor, he improved robustness in Go HTTP middleware by enhancing panic recovery and middleware configurability. Former CISO and CTO experience in enterprise IT and supply‑chain systems underpins his strength in translating complex technical risk into executive decisions and measurable outcomes. He’s known for combining “hacker” curiosity with structured governance to make advanced AI safe, usable, and business‑impactful.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Italian, English
Github Skills (8)
golang10
http10
error-handling10
middleware10
go10
gorilla10
handlers10
testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gorilla/handlers
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Package gorilla/handlers is a collection of useful middleware for Go HTTP services & web applications 🛃
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 11 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily focused on enhancing the `gorilla/handlers` package, adding a recovery handler to gracefully handle panics and return a 500 error. Their contributions involved refactoring the recovery handler, improving its signature and introducing functional options for configuration. This demonstrates a focus on error handling, middleware design, and improving the robustness of the HTTP service.
golangweb-applicationsgo-httphttp-servicesweb-services
njohns-grovo/lock
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
php-5phpaclflexible
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