Nicholas Herman
Cyber Security Engineer at Discover Financial Services
Bartlett, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Herman is a seasoned cyber security engineer with 12 years of experience securing networks and infrastructure across finance, healthcare, and distribution sectors. Currently at Discover Financial Services, he brings hands-on expertise with Palo Alto and Juniper firewalls, Cisco networking, VMware environments, and practical incident-hardening from prior senior roles at KeHE and Trading Technologies. He pairs deep operational knowledge—patching firewalls, designing DMZs, NATs and VLANs, and managing SANs—with a mission-driven drive to make technology improve lives for clinicians, troops, and children. Known for moving between tactical system administration and strategic network security, he’s comfortable both writing policies and implementing the low-level changes that make them effective. Based in Bartlett, Illinois, he blends technical rigor with a clear focus on impactful, user-centered outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Information System Technology, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Information System Technology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Github Skills (62)
visual-studio-code10
electron10
microsoft10
typescript10
editor10
atomic-design9
music-composition8
react8
midi8
active8
shopify7
java7
miner7
audio7
shopware6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
iamn1ck/sm64coopdx
Nov 2025 - Feb 2026
Contributions:2 releases, 17 PRs, 63 pushes in 3 months
iamn1ck/Shipwright-Android
Nov 2025 - Dec 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 8 PRs, 16 pushes in 24 days
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