Nico Dekens
Senior Vice President Of Engineering & Chief Innovator
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolNico Dekens is a veteran OSINT and intelligence leader who translates two decades of Dutch law enforcement investigative experience into strategic innovation and training for governments, Fortune 500s, and private clients. As Senior VP of Engineering & Chief Innovator at ShadowDragon and a longtime SANS instructor and course co-author, he blends operational HUMINT tradecraft with technical open-source intelligence methods to solve complex cross-border cases from murder and narcotics to online radicalization. He co-founded The OSINT Curious Project, served as Senior Project Manager at Bellingcat, and runs Dutch Osint Guy as a public-facing research and teaching platform. Known online as Dutch_OsintGuy, he is deeply embedded in the OSINT community and pursues covert virtual HUMINT and automated OSINT techniques that few practitioners combine with formal law-enforcement casework. His background in both tactical policing and advanced cyber-intelligence training gives him a rare ability to operationalize research into actionable collection systems and curricula. Based in the Netherlands, he continues to consult, lecture, and innovate at the intersection of investigative tradecraft and scalable intelligence engineering.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Registered Open Source Intelligence Analyst, Registered Open Source Intelligence Analyst at International Anti Crime AcademyBellingcat Methodology workshop, Bellingcat Methodology workshop at BellingcatOpen Source Intelligence video training, Open Source Intelligence video training at Inteltechniques.comWireless penetration testing and ethical hacking, SEC617, Wireless penetration testing and ethical hacking, SEC617 at SANS Technology InstituteSeo bootcamp, Seo bootcamp at Udemy AcademyDigital Methods Summerschool, Online radicalisation & recruitment, Digital Methods Summerschool, Online radicalisation & recruitment at Universiteit van AmsterdamReuser Certified Master, OSINT Advanced Investigative Research training Programme, Reuser Certified Master, OSINT Advanced Investigative Research training Programme at Reuser’s information servicesCyber Intelligence Tradecraft Professional, Cyber Intelligence Tradecraft Professional at Treadstone 71Automating osint master course, Automating osint master course at Automatingosint.com
Dutch, English, German, French
Github Skills (18)
discord9
webpages7
video-intelligence-api6
blueteam6
cybersecurity6
security6
ips6
infosec6
chrome-extension4
javascript3
browser3
machine-learning2
python2
google-cloud2
data-viz1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Dutchosintguy/OSINT-Discord-resources
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Some OSINT Discord resources
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 11 months
discordosint
Dutchosintguy/digital-business-cards-pse
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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