Nicholas S
Principal Researcher at Mandiant
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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SeniorNicholas S is a Principal Researcher based in Pittsburgh with nearly a decade of hands-on experience defending networks and dissecting malware across enterprise and government environments. He blends deep reverse-engineering and packet-level detection skills with practical engineering—building Splunk integrations, dockerized automation, and endpoint tooling—to turn research into operational defenses. A former Navy cryptologic technician and senior analyst at Bloomberg and Leidos, he has led incident response, developed IR playbooks, and modernized malware labs for intelligence and corporate customers. Known for teaching and mentoring, he has trained hundreds of IT staff and run weekly capture-the-flag exercises to raise team capability. Organizer of an 800+ member InfoSec community, he pairs technical rigor with diplomatic communication to align engineers and executives.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (45)
portable10
mitre-attack10
pattern9
knife9
matching9
yara9
threat-hunting8
api8
threat-intelligence8
information-security8
fraud-detection8
information-sharing8
cybersecurity8
security8
fraud-prevention8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nekwebdev/LoUHelper
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
Macro Helper for Legends of Ultima
Contributions:8 releases, 30 commits, 9 PRs in 5 months
macrolegendsultimamacro-helper
crowface28/PhishKitFinder
Mar 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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