Nico Hauser
Security Consultant at Redguard AG
Aarau, Aargau, Switzerland
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Top SchoolNico Hauser is a Security Consultant and software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and hardening web and e-commerce platforms from Switzerland. He combines deep backend development skills—illustrated by contributions to the Vendure e-commerce core, performance optimizations and Elasticsearch query customization—with practical incident response and malware reverse-engineering experience. As an independent consultant he delivered bespoke GraphQL/NestJS APIs, Next.js frontends and WooCommerce customizations while operating internal infrastructure like DNS, VPNs, TLS and centralized auth. He holds advanced cybersecurity training from ETH Zürich and EPFL and has supported research-grade projects at DEDIS on proof-of-personhood integrations. Comfortable switching between shipping features and breaking systems to find weaknesses, he brings a pragmatic security-first mindset to product development. Based in Aarau, he pairs entrepreneurial independence with collaborative consultancy for startups and enterprises.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Cyber Security, Master of Science - MS Cyber Security at EPFLMaster of Science - MS Cyber Security, Master of Science - MS Cyber Security at ETH ZürichMatura Physics and Applied Mathematics Computer Science, Matura Physics and Applied Mathematics Computer Science at Neue Kantonsschule Aarau
English, German, French
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Github Skills (35)
ecommerce10
typescript10
wpgraphql10
nestjs10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
commerce10
graphql10
nodejs10
typescripts10
amazon-elasticsearch9
admin9
performance-monitor9
performance-analytics9
performance-measurement9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vendure-ecommerce/vendure
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
The commerce platform with customization in its DNA.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 14 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nico contributed to fixing bugs related to currency codes and shared module generation within the Vendure platform. They also focused on performance improvements, specifically optimizing the `validateVariantOptionIds` function and implementing the `eager` option for improved query performance. Additionally, they implemented a feature to modify search queries within the Elasticsearch plugin, adding a `mapQuery` option for greater flexibility. The user's work primarily involves core Vendure functionalities, specifically those related to e-commerce platform features.
apiecommercejavascriptframeworkshopping-cart
hfag/vendure-graphql-import
May 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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