Cypherpunk and Cybersecurity Specialist

Nick Pio

projects

Shipped and operated Lua systems for a live Roblox game with 9,000 DAU — reliability and abuse-resistant features under real load.

Python script for generating phishing emails for authorized penetration testing

Local credential manager with optional USB hardware key compatibility

Zcash mempool visualizer, explorer, and API for Zebra and Zakura nodes

Umbrel app that runs a Zebra or Zakura full node with lightwalletd for self-hosted wallets

Self-hosted sovereign money tracker

I work in cybersecurity, mostly on infrastructure and software security. I've also worked in enterprise IT and built Lua backends for live games.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Information System Security

skills

[Network Security][Systems Hardening][Threat Analysis][Secure Coding][Linux][Python][Go][TypeScript][C][Cryptography]

Independent posts, security write-ups, and thinkpieces

In 48 hours, PHP, a certificate authority and a popular AI package all failed at once. Finding the bugs was the fast part.

Meta built a serious sandbox for its new AI agent. The failures happened everywhere the sandbox doesn't reach.

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