Nick Combs
Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Combs is an engineering technical leader based in Durham, NC with over a decade of hands-on experience building secure, production-grade infrastructure and software across Cisco, Corelight, and military intelligence environments. He combines a deep operational background in site reliability, data center engineering, and cryptographic systems with advanced technical credentials (M.S. in Computer Science) to deliver resilient, auditable systems at scale. Nick’s career uniquely spans classified TS/SCI operations in the USMC—where he managed cryptographic devices, large AD estates, and automated enterprise tooling—through to leading SRE teams and driving engineering at Cisco. He contributes to open-source security tooling, notably improving certificate and key management in the popular hak5 WiFi Pineapple module ecosystem, showing attention to both backend robustness and practical security. Known for fixing subtle race conditions and automating repetitive tasks, he brings a pragmatic, security-first mindset to architecting reliable platforms. Colleagues rely on him for bridging operational rigor with software development to reduce risk and accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaStetson UniversityBS, Information Technology, BS, Information Technology at American Public University System
Github Skills (11)
crypt10
php10
encrypt10
certificate10
decrypt10
cert10
openssl10
encryption10
decryption10
javascript9
html9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hak5/nano-tetra-modules
Jan 2018 - Jul 2020
The Official WiFi Pineapple Module Repository for the NANO & TETRA
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 8 PRs, 4 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nick appears to be a back-end developer focused on the Papers module within the repository. Their primary contribution involved updating and refactoring code related to certificate management, including generating OpenSSL configurations and implementing key encryption/decryption functionalities. These changes involved modifying PHP scripts and associated HTML and JavaScript files. Further work focused on fixing race conditions and addressing upload bugs.
wifi
sud0nick/Papers
Jan 2016 - Jul 2020
A certificate generator/manager for the WiFi Pineapple NANO and TETRA
Contributions:46 commits, 14 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 years 6 months
wifi
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