Nick Andersen
Executive Assistant Director For Cybersecurity at Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolNick Andersen is a seasoned cybersecurity executive with seven years of high-impact experience leading national cyber and critical infrastructure programs across federal, state, and private sectors. Currently serving as Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity at CISA, he has repeatedly bridged government and industry—holding senior roles at DOE, the White House, the Navy, Coast Guard, and as a CISO in the private sector. He combines operational rigor from military and intelligence CIO roles with strategic policy training from Harvard Kennedy School and technical depth from MS degrees in cybersecurity and information security. Known for stepping into fast-moving, high-stakes environments, he has a track record of standing up resilient cyber operations and coordinating cross-jurisdictional incident response. He also brings executive strategy experience from leading Invictus International Consulting through growth and transition. Outside work, his GitHub bio hints at a digitally native perspective—living life online—which aligns with his career-long focus on securing the digital domain.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity at Brown UniversityExecutive Education, Executive Education at University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of BusinessCertificate in Public Policy, Certificate in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy SchoolMS Information Security and Assurance, MS Information Security and Assurance at Western Governors UniversityBS IT Management, BS IT Management at American Public University SystemDefense Acquisition University
Github Skills (200)
thunderbird10
scanner10
hygiene10
tld10
directives10
rebuild10
skeleton10
amazon-cloudwatch10
filesystem10
xfce10
scanning10
python10
terraform10
docker-container10
freeipa10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mcdonnnj/ansible-role-host-information
Jan 2021 - Jul 2024
Just a role to get information about what it's running against.
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
securityansibletoxtowerrole
mcdonnnj/scraper
Jul 2022 - May 2024
Python library for getting metadata from source code hosting tools
Contributions:2 PRs, 43 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 10 months
hostingpython-librarypythonmetadata
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