Nicolas Trippar
Security Researcher at XBOW
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarNicolas Trippar is a security researcher with 14 years of experience building and breaking systems across financial, enterprise, and government environments, currently focused on applied research at XBOW in New York. He has held senior and leadership roles at Two Sigma and Bloomberg, blending red team tactics, product security, and engineering to harden large-scale platforms. Nicolas pairs hands-on cryptographic and key management work—demonstrated by contributions to sekey, enabling Secure Enclave/Touch ID SSH authentication—with experience driving security features from concept to product. Known for translating adversary techniques into practical defenses, he thrives at the intersection of research, secure engineering, and usability.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish, English
Github Skills (9)
key-management10
macos10
rust10
keychain10
cryptography10
security10
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sekey/sekey
Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
Use Touch ID / Secure Enclave for SSH Authentication!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:48 commits, 12 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily focused on the core functionality of the project, which involves using the Secure Enclave for SSH authentication. Their contributions included implementing and modifying key management functionality with the keychain, including generating, listing, and deleting keys. They also added functionality for short commands and updated the user interface to improve the user experience.
authenticationssh
ntrippar/ARPwner
Aug 2011 - Jan 2012
Contributions:24 commits in 4 months
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