Nicolas Velasquez
Big Data Scientist Specialized In Information Security Data
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Velasquez is a Big Data Scientist based in Geneva with 17 years of experience applying data engineering, statistical analysis and machine learning to information security challenges in international organizations. He designs and implements on-premise Hadoop/Spark pipelines that transform raw firewall, proxy and authentication logs into structured data for real-time risk detection and inter-agency knowledge sharing. Comfortable across Scala, Python, Java and R, he blends low-level networking and Unix administration expertise with advanced analytics to find threats conventional tools miss. His background includes building embedded/authentication components, robotics prototypes, and centralized Linux-based security appliances deployed across fifty field offices, showing a rare mix of R&D and production-grade operational delivery. He holds an MSc in Intelligent Systems from USI and a pragmatic instinct for turning messy log data into actionable dashboards and automated detection programs.
17 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Computing, Bachelor's Degree, Computing at The Open UniversityMaster's Degree, Informatics – Intelligent Systems, Master's Degree, Informatics – Intelligent Systems at Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI)
English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian
Github Skills (67)
devsecops10
vulnerability-management10
python10
security-automation10
security10
automation10
django10
validation10
pythonic10
owasp10
kubernetes10
vulnerability10
analytics10
parsing10
devops10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nv-pipo/ekfoa
Jun 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:69 commits, 1 push, 3 comments in 1 year 3 months
nv-pipo/misp-to-sentinel-and-defender-connector
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
A connector to push MISP IOCs to Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender ATP
Contributions:65 commits, 4 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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