Nico Spagnola
Full Stack Developer at Arizona State University
Mesa, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNico Spagnola is a full stack developer with eight years of hands-on technical experience who blends professional roles, volunteer leadership, and self-driven entrepreneurship. Currently working part-time while completing a BE in Computer Science, he has built practical skills from a computer repair business and hundreds of volunteer hours refurbishing machines for community programs. His internship and short-term IT developer roles expanded into contributions to security-focused open source tooling—adding modules and CLI fixes to the well-known AWS exploitation framework Pacu that enable secrets discovery and ECS task backdooring for red-team testing. Fluent in Japanese (N1-level) and with a decade of video editing experience, he brings cross-cultural communication and multimedia fluency to engineering teams. Known for a strong work ethic and quick learning, he combines hardware troubleshooting, security-aware cloud development, and user-facing full-stack delivery.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityPhoenix CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at STEM School Highlands RanchArapahoe Community College
Github Skills (11)
penetration-testing10
aws10
python10
aws-security10
security10
aws-ecs9
cli9
command-line9
amazon-ecs9
aws-secrets-manager9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
RhinoSecurityLabs/pacu
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
The AWS exploitation framework, designed for testing the security of Amazon Web Services environments.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nico primarily contributed to the `pacu` AWS exploitation framework by adding and modifying modules focused on security testing and AWS environment enumeration. They developed a new module for discovering and dumping secrets from AWS Secrets Manager and Parameter Store. They also contributed to the Pacu CLI functionality and fixed arg parsing issues. Finally, they added a module for backdooring ECS task definitions to potentially steal credentials.
pythonsecurityamazontestingpenetration-testing
EvaStanAccount/Exploits
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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