Nico Valcarcel
Director Information Security
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolNico Valcarcel is a Director of Information Security with 15 years of hands-on software and security experience, currently leading Security Operations and Product Security at NextRoll from Miami. He blends a developer background in Python, Ruby on Rails and Go with security leadership—designing secure engineering pipelines, managing SOC2/PCI-DSS compliance, and automating vendor security reviews for sales. A pragmatist who prioritizes automation, he converts repeatable tasks into durable controls and integrates security into product roadmaps and engineering workflows. His career spans roles from security engineering at Ubuntu to head of security and engineering leadership at Rainforest QA, giving him deep operational and compliance expertise across startups and scale-ups. Outside of day-to-day duties he advises startups and contributes to practitioner communities focused on developing the next generation of security leaders.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
System Engineering, System Engineering at Universidad de Lima
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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6kreached
3answers
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Github Skills (61)
command-line-interface10
secure-coding10
backend10
python9
reverse-engineering8
security8
middleware8
staging8
server7
circleci7
chrome-extension7
radare27
router7
frontend7
rest-api6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nxvl/secure-coding-with-python
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
Secure Coding in python
Contributions:250 commits, 20 PRs, 156 pushes in 2 months
pythonsecure-coding
rainforestapp/auth
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Allows verification of Rainforest webhook messages using your private API key
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 month
apiprivate-apiwebhookapi-keyverification
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