Nick Anderson
Doer Of Things at CFEngine, Inc.
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Summary
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SeniorNick Anderson is a pragmatic systems engineer and long-time sysadmin with 12+ years building and operating Linux and BSD infrastructure across e-commerce, HPC, hosting, and enterprise environments. He specializes in configuration management, virtualization, and security-conscious automation—working extensively with CFEngine and contributing to device lifecycle and compliance tooling at Northern.tech. Nick combines deep hands-on experience (Debian, RHEL/CentOS, Gentoo, FreeBSD), mail and telephony stacks, and clustering/HPC know-how with scripting in Bash/Python/Perl to solve thorny operational problems. He’s an active community contributor—having improved osquery’s crash parsing, build system, and Windows registry tables—showing attention to data quality and cross-platform telemetry. Based in Lawrence, Kansas, he thrives on practical, open-source solutions and mentoring community initiatives like CFEngine’s advisory board and LOPSA’s mentorship program. Colleagues describe him as a doer who prefers shipping robust, auditable systems over theoretical designs.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
c-language10
wp-api10
wmi10
winapi10
security10
ws-api10
cprogramming-language10
data-parsing9
error-handling9
monitoring7
network-intrusion-detection7
sql7
build-automation7
intrusion-detection7
syntax6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
osquery/osquery
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:79 commits, 1 comment in 11 months
Contributions summary:Nick made several significant contributions to the osquery project, primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the crashes table. Their work included renaming the crash log table, improving parsing logic, and adding support for mobile device crash parsing. Additionally, the user filtered out low-battery crash logs, indicating a focus on data quality, and incorporated WMI functions for improved functionality. They also made several contributions to improve build system, and added a new table for windows registry.
instrumentationanalyticsoperating-systemsecuritysql
PoppySeedPlehzr/socialmalware
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:3 commits in 7 months
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