Nick Anderson
Senior Security Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNick Anderson is a Senior Security Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in malware analysis and reverse engineering, currently researching Android malware at Google. His career spans senior security roles at major tech firms including Facebook and Apple, plus applied R&D at Sandia, reflecting deep expertise across industry and national lab environments. He combines rigorous academic training—a Math BS and a Cyber Security MS—with hands-on contributions to open-source projects like osquery, where he enhanced file carving, build automation, and monitoring integrations. Known for pragmatic tooling and deployment improvements, he brings a blend of low-level reverse engineering and production-focused engineering. Based in Seattle, he’s as comfortable debugging complex binaries as he is improving CI/CD and observability pipelines, and he candidly balances intense technical work with an offbeat appreciation for beer and community outreach.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Narvik University College (HiN)Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, 3.883, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, 3.883 at University of WyomingHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Douglas High SchoolMaster's degree, Cyber Security, 3.889, Master's degree, Cyber Security, 3.889 at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
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Github Skills (19)
windows10
build-automation10
deployment-automation10
testing9
c-language9
devops9
cprogramming-language9
python8
security8
monitoring8
script7
bash7
bash-shell7
sh7
shell7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
osquery/osquery
Jun 2017 - Jun 2021
SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:20 releases, 37 reviews, 128 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to multiple aspects of the osquery project, including enhancing the file carver functionality by streaming tar creation, updating build scripts to resolve issues, fixing watcher logic for worker processes, and adding integration tests. They also worked on updating various chocolatey powershell build scripts, demonstrating a focus on deployment and build automation. Furthermore, they updated system information and fixed an interface indexing issue within the ARP cache table.
instrumentationanalyticsoperating-systemsecuritysql
muffins/reaPyr
Feb 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:40 commits in 2 months
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