Robert Nixon
Head Of The Cyber Defence Centre at Dojo
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Nixon is a cybersecurity leader with nine years of hands-on experience building and running 24/7 threat operations across financial, enterprise, and consumer tech environments. Currently Head of the Cyber Defence Centre at Dojo after leading EMEA threat detection and the UK CSOC for TikTok, he combines strategic program development with tactical incident response, threat hunting and detection engineering. He has led cross-functional teams, integrated MISP and automation platforms, and driven measurable ROI and operational maturity in threat intelligence programs. His background includes managing fusion centers that merged cyber and fraud intelligence to recover funds and reduce account takeovers, and he has practical scripting experience contributing Python tooling to the widely used MISP warninglists repository. Robert pairs a master’s in computer science and multiple InfoSec certifications with a former US Army NCO’s operational rigor, making him comfortable in both board-level risk discussions and late-night incident war rooms. Based in Stony Stratford, he’s known for turning complex threat data into actionable defensive playbooks and scalable detection pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Columbus State UniversityAssociate of Science (A.S.) Information Technology, Associate of Science (A.S.) Information Technology at Central Texas CollegeNegotiation Mastery, Negotiation Mastery at Harvard Business School OnlineBachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Science at Troy University
English
Github Skills (14)
apim10
threat-intelligence10
api10
data-parsing10
python10
zip9
http-request9
unzip9
automation9
automations9
pkzip9
net8
network8
msp8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
MISP/misp-warninglists
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
Warning lists to inform users of MISP about potential false-positives or other information in indicators
Role in this project:
Back-end Engineer
Back-end EngineerContributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 4 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily developed Python scripts to generate warning lists related to threat intelligence data from Cisco Umbrella and Alexa. They focused on fetching data from external sources, parsing it, and formatting it into a warning list format. Their work involved utilizing libraries like `requests` and `zipfile` to interact with external APIs and file formats, including modifying and refining scripts to resolve TLD truncation issues. They also updated the scripts, adding a type field and debugging issues.
mispfalse-positivedfirinformsecurity
NVISOsecurity/nviso-cti
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:4 reviews, 149 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 6 months
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