Nicolás Petersen
Cybersecurity Researcher at hirusec_
Errenteria, Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain
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Top SchoolNicolás Petersen is a cybersecurity researcher with over a decade of hands-on experience modernizing legacy IT and OT environments, currently working at hirusec_ and active since the MS-DOS era. He specializes in Debian-based infrastructure, Proxmox virtualization, OpenWrt routing/firewall setups, custom backup systems, honeypots, and automation via Bash and APIs. Nicolás has a track record of building secure test and production virtual labs and migrating functional systems into tailored virtualized architectures, plus founding and instructing at Academia BlackTatami. A CETI Cybersecurity Specialist and Cyberlehia 2025 Champion, he combines practical systems administration roots with research-driven offensive and defensive techniques. Based in Errenteria, Spain, he keeps a pragmatic open-source mindset (see his GitHub) and often bridges IT and OT gaps that others overlook.
10 years of coding experience
Inglés C1, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS, Inglés C1, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS at New Lincoln SchoolBachiller con orientación en gestión y administración, Honors/Regents High School/Secondary Diploma Program, Bachiller con orientación en gestión y administración, Honors/Regents High School/Secondary Diploma Program at Escuela de educación media nro. 7Especialista CETI de ciberseguridad, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Especialista CETI de ciberseguridad, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Zubiri Manteo
English, Spanish
Github Skills (32)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nipegun/p-scripts
Apr 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:898 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
nipegun/nft-net-blocking-tools
Oct 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:230 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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