Nik Ogura
Founder And Principal Consultant at KATN Solutions
California, United States
Summary
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SeniorNik Ogura is a founder and principal consultant with 11 years of modern infrastructure, security, and SRE experience, now running KATN Solutions to deliver enterprise-grade Infrastructure and SecDevOps without ongoing senior engineering costs. He has led infrastructure and security at high-growth crypto and data platforms (Terrace), automated FedRAMP and WAF workflows at AWS, and built foundational DevSecOps systems at Apple, Scribd, and Stitch Fix. Nik specializes in multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms, observability at massive scale, and automation that turns compliance and incident response into measurable business wins (e.g., 85% MTTR reduction, 76% cost reduction). He’s pragmatic and contrarian—“Occam’s Chainsaw”—favoring bold simplification and building the tooling when it doesn’t exist. Known for hiring and training practices that validate real delivery under pressure, he also has deep experience recovering from insider threats while preserving zero-trust guarantees. Based in California, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic architecture for secure, resilient systems across regulated and global environments.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (90)
encryption10
hashicorp-vault10
signing10
secrets10
vault10
golang10
dbus10
updating10
signed10
sounds9
database9
testing9
security9
contour9
binaries9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
scribd/fastly-waf-ece
Sep 2018 - Dec 2019
Event Correlation Engine for Fastly WAF Events ('event correlation engine' sounds a lot cooler than 'log smoosher')
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 2 months
fastlyeventsevent-sourcinglotcqrs
nikogura/vault-authenticator
Dec 2019 - Mar 2024
Managed Secrets Client Libraries
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
1passwordsecuritysecrets-managervaultsecrets
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