Nicholas Kaminsky

Major Experience

Echo360 Capture Team - 2022

Role: Sr. Scala Engineer

• Spearheaded the initiative to expand Echo360 Streaming and Capture Infrastructure to support 4-channel video capture and playback capabilities.
• Overhauled nearly all critical systems, including media processing and streaming pipelines, microservices, and the Advanced Learning Platform Monolith, ensuring functional programming patterns.
• Resolved critical legacy issues such as SQS idempotency failures, no ops, and double executions ensuring the successful processing of all media content.
• Covered diverse codebases and libraries in Scala, C++, Java, GoLang, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript

• Created Authn, Chaptering, and Playlisting Microservices
• Led the design and implementation of microservices in Scala and Play Framework, leveraging Docker and Jenkins for streamlined deployment and scalability.
• Integrated with transformer neural net to supply chaptering and chapter heading information for Echo360 captured videos and lectures.
• Integrated AWS services including Redis, S3, EC2, CloudSearch, PubNub, Kafka, SQL, and NoSQL databases, optimizing system performance and reliability.

• Collaborated on the development of a new media storage system, replacing the legacy Course/Section/Lesson NoSQL structure with a relational one. Addressed complexities such as embedded and shared permissions, content searching, and backward compatibility, ensuring seamless content delivery to students.

MediTechSafe Cybersecurity Team - 2021

Role: Lead Software Engineer

• Managed a scrum of 4 to maintain an updated front end web application running React/Angular
• Added several monitoring and analytics pages to the monolith
• Developed updates to a mobile application that tested customer knowledge of cybersecurity
• Mentored several students through introductions to Javascript and Python to ensure their success as future developers

• Created a custom network scanning suite to perform a variety of automated penetration tests
• Implemented a network scanner using a combination of NMAP and SCAPY in python that ran in the users background processes
• This scanner inventoried networks at around 33% faster than native implementations using optimized multihtreading
• Managed development of web scrapers to perform vulnerability scans on queried network devices
• Performed scheduled network scans, vulnerability scans, wireless tests, os fingerprinting, password cracks, and DDoS tests
• Covered code in C#, Python, Pascal, GoLang, SQL, Javascripts, AWS, PostGres

Vecmar Thin Client Team - 2020

Role: Lead Engineer/Technician

• Hacked Dell and HP BIOS chipset security and developed a jailbreak to run custom firmware, then automated it
• This involved melting BIOS chips off motherboards and reverse engineering the source code with GHIDRA to decrypt and reprogram security keys
• Developed cloud architecture for automatic firmware deployment using clonezilla
• Developed windows automation scripts to click through programs for BIOS chip programming
• Engineered and 3D printed tools for consistent BIOS chip removal

• Repaired hardware and enhanced lifetime of corporate computing devices
• Soldered electronic components necessary for boot and reinforced lifetime. Including but not limited to capacitors, resistors, USB ports, HDMI ports, BIOS chips, and flash memory
• Installed additional hardware, such as RAM and SSD memory
• Systems based in Windows, Linux, Python, Bash, Ghidra, and UEFI console

AppleGrowth Partners Financial Technologies Team - 2016

Role: Software Engineer Intern

• Lead development of workflow automation
• Engineered an 'email intern' to integrate ticket updates to affected employees
• Developed a suite to automatically deploy different installations for new employees
• Developed a full stack application to monitor employee hardware usage and inventory