Nick Cano
Security Engineer L6 at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorNick Cano is a Security Engineer (L6) with over a decade of hands-on experience building and hardening systems end-to-end, from kernel and driver review to product-facing services. He combines deep C++ and security expertise with a full-stack, full-product mindset—authoring the book Game Hacking and producing example code that demonstrates low-level hooking, memory manipulation, and code injection techniques. His background spans technical leadership roles at Google (leading Fuchsia security reviews), BlackBerry/Cylance and AWS, plus founding a commercial autonomous-agent product that protected itself from real-world attacks while serving thousands of users. Nick excels at threat modeling, automated scanning and fuzzing, and architecting pragmatic defenses, and he intentionally moves beyond point fixes to eliminate systemic vulnerabilities. He’s looking to lead impactful projects where clean code, smart design, and teachable engineering practices matter.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
437reputation
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Github Skills (21)
c-language10
hacking10
manipulation10
code-injection10
memory-editing10
direct3d10
control-flow10
reverse-engineering10
cprogramming-language10
hackclient10
winapi9
wp-api9
ws-api9
data-structures6
segmentation-fault6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GameHackingBook/GameHackingCode
Apr 2015 - Feb 2017
Example code for the book http://www.nostarch.com/gamehacking . PLEASE READ THE README
Role in this project:
Game Hacker / Reverse Engineer
Game Hacker / Reverse EngineerContributions:25 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Nick's commits primarily involve example code related to game hacking techniques. The code demonstrates the usage of Direct3D for hooking and modifying graphics, accessing memory to alter program behavior, and injecting code into a target process. Examples include control flow manipulation with NOPs, hooking the IAT and VTables, and creating code injection methods, all geared towards altering the behavior of a target process.
gamehackinggame
BromiumLabs/PackerAttacker
Apr 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:34 commits, 6 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years 11 months
memorycppdetectpackershooks
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