Reza Nikoopour
Principal Engineer at Epic Games
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolReza Nikoopour is a Principal Engineer based in Los Angeles with 12 years of deep specialization in cloud and infrastructure security, currently shaping security architecture at Epic Games. He has led secrets management, immutable infrastructure and serverless resiliency projects across major gaming and edge-network companies including Riot, Subspace, and Epic, blending hands-on engineering with security program leadership. Reza’s background spans pentesting and static analysis to building automated asset management, Okta SSO integrations, and Terraform-driven deployments, evidencing a full-spectrum cloud security skill set. He also taught introductory computer security at the university level, signaling an ability to communicate complex security concepts to diverse audiences. Combining a lifelong interest in gaming with security expertise, he focuses on making large-scale game and cloud systems both resilient and developer-friendly.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at The California State University
Stackoverflow
533reputation
51kreached
15answers
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Github Skills (200)
starter-kit10
language-server-protocol10
terraform10
cpp10
terraform-module10
client-library10
kubectl10
golang10
xml-dom10
json10
aws-lambda10
eslint10
java10
openid10
major-mode10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rnikoopour/WikiSearch
Jun 2014 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 3 years 7 months
rnikoopour/lsp-docker
Feb 2020 - Oct 2020
Scripts and configurations to leverage lsp-mode in docker environment
Contributions:4 PRs, 26 pushes, 18 branches in 8 months
docker-environmentdockerleveragelspconfigurations
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