Nick Mavis
Senior Research Engineer at Cisco Talos Intelligence Group
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Mavis is a Senior Research Engineer at Cisco Talos with nine years of hands-on experience in malware reverse engineering, signature development, and security research. Based in Baltimore, he specializes in crafting and reviewing detection rules for Snort, ClamAV, and other Cisco products while building research platforms that improve threat analysis across the organization. A former technical support engineer from the Sourcefire/Cisco era, he combines deep IPS/IDS operational knowledge with low-level analysis to reduce false positives and resolve complex software bugs. Nick frequently serves as an internal security consultant across Cisco divisions, translating research findings into practical protections. His background in information systems security and early work soldering and programming PCBs reflects a blend of hardware curiosity and rigorous software-focused threat research.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems Security, Networking, Security, Management, Information Systems Security, Networking, Security, Management at Anne Arundel Community College
Github Skills (20)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RSC-NA/bot-RSCBot
Jul 2022 - May 2026
Contributions:24 reviews, 119 PRs, 181 pushes in 3 years 10 months
RSC-NA/rsc
Jan 2024 - Jun 2026
The new version of the RSC bot
Contributions:2 PRs, 364 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 5 months
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