Nicholas Pecka
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Pecka is a software engineer with a decade of experience focused on hybrid cloud management and security engineering, currently leading security efforts at Red Hat. He blends hands-on development with mentorship, drawing on prior roles as a cybersecurity engineer at Garmin and early software internships that included automated testing with Selenium and Java. Academically steeped in cyber security—pursuing a PhD and holding a master’s in Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism—he brings rigorous research-informed thinking to production systems. Based in Kansas City, he is comfortable navigating enterprise-scale cloud security challenges while translating complex technical risks into practical engineering solutions. An under-the-radar strength is his cross-disciplinary background spanning embedded/consumer device security at Garmin to cloud-native security at Red Hat, enabling effective threat modeling across diverse platforms.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism, Master's degree, Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism at Iowa State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cyber Security, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cyber Security at University of North Texas
Github Skills (112)
data-stream10
messaging10
metadata10
operator-lifecycle-manager10
data-streams10
operator10
catalog10
kubernetes-operator10
kafka-streams10
artifacts10
data-streaming10
kubernetes10
kafka-connect10
e2e-test10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
app-sre/deployment-validation-operator
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
The Deployment Validator Operator (DVO) checks deployments and other resources against a curated collection of best practices.
Contributions:2 releases, 23 reviews, 28 commits in 10 months
deploymentoperatorbest-ofvalidatorkubernetes
npecka/deployment-validation-operator
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
The Deployment Validator Operator (DVO) checks deployments and other resources against a curated collection of best practices.
Contributions:68 pushes, 15 branches in 11 months
deploymentoperatorbest-ofvalidatorkubernetes
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