Nick Ciske
Chief Information Security Officer
Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNick Ciske is a versatile technology leader and Chief Information Security Officer with 13+ years of experience steering security, DevOps, and web engineering at LuminFire. He blends hands-on product and platform development—particularly WordPress, Laravel, React, and FileMaker integrations—with enterprise security practices like zero trust, HIPAA compliance, and company-wide MFA. Previously a founder and principal of ThoughtRefinery, he has deep roots in web design, multimedia, and custom plugin/theme development dating back to the early 2000s. Nick excels at turning complex integration challenges into maintainable products (BrilliantSync/BrilliantGateway) while running CI/CD, SCRUM, and hosting operations for 100+ solutions. A minimalist by design, he favors pragmatic, low-friction architectures that balance usability and security. He also has international startup experience, having lived and managed production teams in India during his career.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
AAS Multimedia Design Multimedia Web Design/Development Print Design, AAS Multimedia Design Multimedia Web Design/Development Print Design at Academy Education Center
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Github Skills (55)
wordpress10
spatial-functions10
salesforce10
api-design9
geocoder9
api-client9
geojson9
gravityforms9
api9
gis9
rest-api9
matomo8
graphql8
grpc8
curl8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BrilliantPlugins/salesforce-wordpress-to-lead
Nov 2012 - Mar 2021
github home of http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/salesforce-wordpress-to-lead/
Contributions:19 releases, 399 commits, 9 PRs in 8 years 5 months
salesforcewordpress
BrilliantPlugins/geometa-acf
Mar 2017 - Jun 2024
A GeoMeta custom field type for ACF
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 3 comments in 7 years 5 months
field-typeacfcustom-fieldfieldgis
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