Nikita Wootten
Security Engineer at Kanary
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolNikita Wootten is a Security Engineer with a decade of experience blending full-stack development, machine learning/NLP, DevOps, and systems architecture across government research and startup environments. A co-founder and former Chief Data Scientist at MindStand Technologies, Nikita spent several years as a computer scientist at NIST, where research rigor met practical engineering. Now at Kanary, they’ve transitioned from senior software roles into dedicated security engineering, bringing a research-informed approach to threat modeling and secure system design. Based in Baltimore, Nikita is a Linux enthusiast and homelabber who enjoys turning hobby projects into hardened, production-ready infrastructure. Notably, their background bridges academic research and product delivery, enabling them to translate complex ML and security problems into auditable, deployable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Enginnering, High School, Enginnering at Rockville High SchoolUMBC
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (115)
emoji10
launcher10
linux10
neo4j10
cypher10
golang10
cli10
edges10
graph10
go10
org-mode10
object-graph10
markdown9
nixos9
knowledge-management9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
nikitawootten/.dotfiles
Mar 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:67 commits, 47 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 6 months
nikitawootten/infra
Dec 2022 - Jul 2026
My personal monorepo, containing my dotfiles and related infrastructure
Contributions:177 pushes, 10 branches, 1 comment in 3 years 7 months
monoreponix-flakenixosnixos-configurationmakefile
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