Nick Gonella
Product Security Lead TLM at BSidesSF
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Gonella is a product security leader with 11 years of hands-on experience building security programs, performing code audits, threat modeling, and automated vulnerability discovery across startups and large cloud teams. Currently leading Product Security at Harvey after bootstrapping the function there, he combines deep AppSec expertise from roles at AWS, Workday, and CLEAR with practical offensive experience in pentesting, tooling, and SAST/automation. Nick’s background as a systems instructor and interest in binary analysis, reverse engineering, and “weird machines” gives him a rare blend of low-level curiosity and product-focused pragmatism. An active open-source contributor and CTF player, he also contributed front-end improvements to the well-known Mattermost project, demonstrating comfort across UI and backend tooling.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
English
Github Skills (7)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
user-experience9
ux-design9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mattermost/mattermost
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:196 commits, 118 PRs, 214 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Mattermost project. They implemented improvements to the user interface, including styling and layout changes to modals and settings. They also focused on improving the user experience by addressing issues with scrolling and the display of content, and implemented new features in the UI like video embedding and private group descriptions. The user also worked on various improvements of emoji and the posting of files.
golangsecuredevelopment-lifecyclelifecyclereact-native
atti1a/dotfiles
Feb 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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