Nick Gilbert

CEO

Sarasota, Florida, United States25 yrs 5 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Over 20 years of experience in IT and computer security.
  • Lead cloud engineer responsible for AWS account security.
  • CISSP and OSCP certified with a passion for knowledge sharing.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Security Architect with extensive experience in AWS and cybersecurity.

Contact

LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Red TeamingAws SecurityCloud SecurityIncident ResponseCloud ArchitectureSecurity Engineering

Other Skills

AWS CloudFormationAWS LambdaAgile Project ManagementAmazon EKSAmazon Web Services (AWS)CentOSCloud AutomationCloud ComputingCloud InfrastructureCloud OperationsCommunicationComputer ForensicsCustomer SuccessCyber-securityDevOps

About

With over 20 years of experience in IT and computer security, I am a lead cloud engineer at FICO, where I am responsible for the security of AWS accounts, threat modeling, penetration testing, security automation, and incident response. I have a passion for keeping networks secure and staying on top of technology, as well as a strong background in cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, and security best practices. I hold the CISSP and OSCP certifications, and I am an AWS Community Builder on the Security and Identity team. I also enjoy sharing my knowledge and skills through articles, courses, and CTF challenges.

Experience

Fico

3 roles

Cyber Security - Senior Manager - Offensive Security - Red Team

Promoted

May 2025 – Present · 10 mos

  • Lead the Red Team, emulating real-world threats in AWS cloud environments.
  • Perform cloud pentests to uncover misconfigs, privilege issues, and access risks.
  • Automate red team efforts across hundreds of AWS accounts and services.
  • Use GenAI for automated recon, reporting, and finding misconfigs.
  • Partner with engineering and product teams via Tiger Teams to strengthen security.
  • Simulate insider threats and APTs against cloud-native systems.
  • Build scalable processes for continuous red team testing and validation.
  • Leverage AWS, Python, and GenAI to create secure, test-driven tools.
Red TeamingGenerative AI for SecurityAWS SecurityPenetration Testing

Cyber Security - Lead Engineer - Offensive Security - Red Team

Jul 2024 – May 2025 · 10 mos

Lead Cloud Engineer - DevOps

Oct 2021 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Responsible for security of AWS accounts
  • Threat modeling to identify security gaps and implement
  • remediation plans
  • Red Team / Blue Team exercises
  • Kubernetes security at the control plane, node and pod levels
  • AWS Penetration Testing and Security Automation
  • Develop security scripts in Python (boto3 / Lambda)
  • Setup cloud security monitoring and provide Incident Response
  • Enforce security in CI/CD pipelines
  • Mentor junior employees as part of FICO's mentoring program
Kali LinuxVulnerability ManagementCloud SecurityIncident Response

Fannie mae

Senior Cloud Security Architect

Mar 2021 – Oct 2021 · 7 mos

  • SME on Cloud Security and best practices in the cloud
  • Review security context of applications with the Enterprise
  • Architect team
  • Present AWS security design patterns to the review board
  • Conduct NIST 800-53 Assessments of Applications
  • Work with app teams to migrate applications from on prem to the
  • Cloud in a secure manner
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments though CI/CD Pipelines
  • Incident response and remediation including developing PoCs
  • Participate in TSPs (Technology Selection Process)
Threat ModelingCloud Security

Udemy

Instructor - Advanced AWS Topics

Apr 2018 – Oct 2018 · 6 mos · Online

Penguin enterprises corp.

2 roles

Cloud Architect / Security Engineer / General Manager

Promoted

Jul 2017 – Feb 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Greater Chicago Area

  • Engineered Lambda scripts, using Python, to automate security
  • Planned, implemented, managed and monitored cloud
  • infrastructure for a Marriott secure platform, which served the top
  • tier Marriott Hotels (JW & Platinum)
  • Provided infrastructure and security consulting to enterprise
  • clients such as GrubHub
  • Architected Infrastructure Solutions, including EC2, RDS and VPCs
  • Utilized AWS Security Tools including: GuardDuty, WAF, IAM,
  • Security Hub, Config, and KMS
  • Implemented highly available and auto-scalable cloud solutions
  • for international clients
  • Aided clients in achieving PCI DSS compliance
  • Created a Python and Linux based server management platform
  • Project management for projects in PHP, Python and Bash
  • Managed System Administration and Tech Support teams
  • Led the migration of 100+ servers to the Cloud
OSCPMalware AnalysisVulnerability AssessmentCloud ArchitectureSecurity Engineering

General Manager

Jan 2007 – Jul 2017 · 10 yrs 6 mos · Greater Chicago Area

Advanced network hosts

General Manager

Oct 2001 – Jan 2007 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Greater Chicago Area

Jackson hewitt tax service inc.

Network Administrator

Oct 2000 – Apr 2004 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Chicago, IL

Education

SANS Technology Institute

Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Mathematics

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