Nicholas Nezis
Vice President, Cyber Programs at Brazen Apps LLC
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Nezis is a seasoned cyber and engineering leader with over 11 years of experience delivering secure, distributed systems for the DoD and Intelligence Community, currently serving as Vice President, Cyber Programs at Systolic, Inc. He combines deep technical chops—from low-level engineering to cloud-native DevOps—with strategic program leadership, and holds TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph. His background includes designing advanced SIGINT and information assurance solutions and a steady progression from software engineer to executive roles across government and private sector labs. Nicholas also contributes to open-source tooling for stream processing infrastructure, with practical Kubernetes-focused improvements to Apache Heron that modernize deployment and networking in container environments. Based in Baltimore, he pairs an MSEE and BS in Electrical Engineering with hands-on operational experience, making him effective at turning classified mission requirements into auditable, production-ready systems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical vision that spans research labs to deployed cyber programs.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of South FloridaSt. Petersburg CollegeMSEE, Electrical Engineering, MSEE, Electrical Engineering at University of Florida
English, Greek
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
docker9
android-studio9
javas8
java8
cicd8
helm7
byte6
android6
dump6
build-automation6
gradle6
event-handling6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
apache/incubator-heron
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
Apache Heron (Incubating) is a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine from Twitter
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 122 reviews, 140 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas's commits primarily focus on updating the Apache Heron project to support Kubernetes. They address deprecated Kubernetes APIs, remove outdated controller logic, and perform code cleanup. The changes include updating the Kubernetes client library and adjusting limits within the Kubernetes environment. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to create a headless service and updated the codebase to utilize FQDNs when operating within a Kubernetes environment.
fault-tolerantrealtimedata-streamfaultstream
nicknezis/incubator-heron
Dec 2019 - Jun 2022
Apache Heron (Incubating) is a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine from Twitter
Contributions:141 pushes, 37 branches in 2 years 6 months
fault-tolerantrealtimedata-streamfaultstreams
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