Nick Malcolm
Senior Application Security Engineer
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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SeniorNick Malcolm is a Senior Application Security Engineer with 14 years’ experience helping organisations shift security left across development lifecycles, currently building secure DevOps capabilities at GitLab. He combines hands-on AppSec and DevSecOps practice with advisory work across startups, enterprises and government in sectors such as finance, healthcare, AI/ML and critical national infrastructure. Originally a full‑stack developer (Rails + AWS), he blends practical engineering experience with cloud security credentials including AWS Security, Solutions Architect, and CCSP. Nick has led secure development training, co-organised OWASP Day, and spoken internationally, demonstrating a commitment to community and inclusive advocacy. He’s comfortable across monoliths and microservices, on-prem and cloud, and prioritises pragmatic, realistic security that development teams can adopt. Outside work he’s a family-focused dad, which he cites as his primary source of joy and balance.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
726reputation
57kreached
6answers
10questions
Github Skills (98)
devise10
devsecops10
security-hardening10
python10
authentication10
gcp10
ruby10
security10
hipaa10
monitoring10
aws-security10
pci10
azure-security10
html10
pci-dss10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nickmalcolm/nickmalcolm.github.com
Jan 2016 - Aug 2024
Personal website running on Github Pages
Contributions:1 PR, 40 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 8 months
jekyll
thisdata/thisdata-php
May 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:23 commits, 5 PRs, 15 pushes in 5 months
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