Nick Meves
Security Engineer at Stripe
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Meves is a security engineer with 11 years of experience building billion-scale systems and owning full security stacks across startups and large enterprises. He has driven enterprise-grade network monitoring and incident response platforms at Boeing, led Greenhouse’s product and Kubernetes security, and now partners with Stripe’s ML and infrastructure teams to architect advanced data protection, pseudonymization, and an internal authorization framework. A hands-on engineer and coder, Nick co-maintained the popular oauth2-proxy project and led security-focused refactors like migrating cookie signing from SHA1 to SHA256. He holds two network security patents and served as one of five Technical Fellows in Boeing’s 500-person security organization, reflecting deep technical recognition. Notably, he designs deterministic synthetic data and pseudonymization libraries that preserve joins and constraints to enable safe, realistic testing at scale. Based in Los Angeles, he blends systems architecture, cryptography, and pragmatic developer tooling to make secure, auditable platforms usable across large codebases.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
German, English
Github Skills (6)
go10
encryption10
session-management10
hmac9
sha9
security8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy
May 2020 - Dec 2021
A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect and many more identity providers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1026 reviews, 163 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on improving the security and functionality of cookie handling within the oauth2-proxy project. They migrated the cookie signing algorithm from SHA1 to SHA256, implementing code cleanup and variable hashing functions. They also refactored the utils package, moving session-related functions to the cookie session store and ensuring consistent secret byte handling. The user demonstrated skills in encryption and session management, contributing to the project's security.
proxyreverse-proxyidentityazureoauth2
grnhse/oauth2-proxy
May 2020 - Apr 2021
A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Github or other providers.
Contributions:8 PRs, 357 pushes, 45 branches in 11 months
proxygoogleauthenticationprovidersreverse-proxy
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