Summary
Nick Kohse is a Software Engineer IV at Cisco with eight years of experience building and hardening endpoint security solutions, currently focused on Cisco Secure Endpoint Private Cloud. A University of Calgary Software Engineering graduate (class of 2020), he progressed internally from QA Test Analyst to senior engineering roles, giving him a strong test-first mindset and deep product context. He brings hands-on expertise in shipping reliable, secure systems at enterprise scale and understands both development and quality assurance lifecycles. Based in Calgary, he combines disciplined engineering practices with practical operational awareness gained by growing through multiple roles within the same product team. Outside the obvious, his career shows a pattern of steady internal promotion that reflects strong collaboration, ownership, and the ability to translate customer-facing security requirements into robust cloud-native implementations.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering at University of Calgary