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Nick

Cloud Engineer II at AWS working on reliability and CI/CD for production systems.

What I Do

  • Solve: long-standing system and reliability issues
  • Build: CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
  • Automate: repetitive operational work
  • Own: projects end-to-end and push them to completion
  • Span: infrastructure, scripting, and deployment systems

Experience

Work

Cloud / DevOps Engineer

Cloud Environment

Present

  • Identifies and resolves long-standing system issues impacting reliability and performance.
  • Builds and improves CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
  • Owns multiple concurrent efforts and drives them to completion.

Technical Lead / Instructor

Training Environment

Previous

  • Built and delivered technical training across systems, networking, and scripting.
  • Developed hands-on labs focused on real-world infrastructure concepts.
  • Mentored teams through complex technical problems.

Cyber / Systems Engineer

Research Environment

Previous

  • Worked on system configuration, automation, and secure infrastructure setups.
  • Built and supported isolated lab environments for testing and validation.

Technologies

AWSCI/CDPythonPowerShellBashTypeScriptNetworkingIAMEC2LambdaS3VPCGit

Projects

SSO SAML Inspector

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Problem

Debugging SAML is opaque and error-prone, especially when issuer, audience, attributes, or time-based conditions do not match expected values.

What I built

A Tampermonkey userscript that captures SAML responses in the browser, decodes and parses them, and surfaces the fields that matter most during troubleshooting.

Why it matters

Makes it faster to diagnose SSO issues and validate assertions without bouncing between browser tools and manual decoding steps.

Tech
JavaScriptTampermonkeyRequest interceptionBase64 decodingXML parsing