Nick Taylor
Security Engineering Manager at Float
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Taylor is a Security Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience building risk-aware product security and infrastructure protections at scale. He has led multi-team efforts at Shopify—securing Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and software supply chains—and now leads security engineering at Float from Ottawa. Nick blends hands-on technical delivery (LLM/RAG automation, SIEM and data warehouse migrations, BeyondCorp/Zero Trust deployments) with people leadership, growing and mentoring teams up to 20 engineers. He’s comfortable translating product and engineering priorities into pragmatic security controls and has a track record of embedding long-term security architecture into fast-moving organizations. An analytic thinker with a background in ML-driven phishing classification and identity-aware access systems, he brings both incident experience and strategic foresight to corporate security programs.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of CalgaryBachelor’s Degree, Computing and Information Systems, 4.0, Bachelor’s Degree, Computing and Information Systems, 4.0 at Athabasca University
English
Github Skills (58)
survival10
trinitycore10
azerothcore10
docker9
okta-api9
xla8
elixir8
developer-tools8
driver8
adaptor8
req8
multidimensional-arrays7
kubernetes7
ruby7
kernel7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
NickTaylor-/NickTaylor-.github.io
Mar 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:3 PRs, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
NickTaylor-/sorting-algorithms
Nov 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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