Nik Hodgkinson
Software Engineer at IceGuard
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNik Hodgkinson is a software engineer with 13 years of experience designing and operating platform, infrastructure, and big-data systems from startups to large enterprises in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has strong Java and Go expertise and a track record building secure, automated developer workflows—most recently implementing SSO, SCIM, and JWT-based internal auth flows at Starburst and automating multi-datacenter Kubernetes operations at Walmart. Nik contributes to prominent open-source projects like Trino, where he strengthened OIDC/OAuth2 security and token validation, showing attention to both robustness and protocol correctness. He combines hands-on implementation, team-building, and security advisory roles, and is drawn to disruptive products and hard engineering problems that reward automation and long-term maintainability.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (20)
oid10
java10
security10
javas10
oauth10
sql9
query-engine9
analytics7
databases7
distributed-systems7
database7
netezza6
hive6
parsing6
translate6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
trinodb/trino
Mar 2019 - Aug 2022
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Security Engineer
Back-end Developer / Security EngineerContributions:93 reviews, 8 PRs, 179 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nik primarily focused on enhancing the security and robustness of the Trino query engine, specifically around OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication. Their contributions involved correcting assumptions related to OIDC access tokens, validating tokens, and improving the overall OAuth2 implementation. The user added support for using the OIDC /userinfo endpoint, and also refactored the code to address structural and security issues. They also renamed some classes.
big-datasql-querytrinojavapresto
11xor6/trino
Apr 2019 - Apr 2022
Official home of Presto, the distributed SQL query engine for big data
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 PRs, 114 pushes in 3 years 1 month
flink-sqljdbchbasebigdatakudu
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