Nick Skelsey
Principal Software Engineer at Autodesk
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Skelsey is a Principal Software Engineer and security-focused public interest technologist based in Oslo with 12 years’ experience designing, analyzing, and implementing distributed systems. He combines hands-on cloud and platform engineering at Autodesk with deep infosec expertise gained from roles at AWS EMR and boutique penetration testing, where he led incident responses, authorization redesigns, and large-scale regional expansion projects. Nick has a history of building privacy-preserving tools and operational security for sensitive projects—from improving whistleblower submission systems to shipping a blockchain messaging prototype—and he teaches security to new hires. Comfortable at the intersection of product, compliance, and engineering, he delivers pragmatic, auditable solutions like CSP rollouts and SOC2 readiness while reducing latency and scaling services. Colleagues rely on him for rigorous security design that still keeps systems fast and usable.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Virginia
Italian, English, Norwegian
Github Skills (114)
python10
security10
flask-application10
twisted10
creative-commons10
mod-manager10
debian10
letsencrypt10
leiningen10
graphic10
trinitycore10
data-storage10
gift10
traffic-analysis10
aes-encryption10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
NSkelsey/aaalm
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Generate network maps from packet captures
Contributions:58 commits, 1 PR, 44 pushes in 24 days
packet-capturenetwork-visualizationzeekzeek-package
NSkelsey/algorithms
Oct 2013 - Nov 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 2 years 1 month
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