About

I’m Nick Gomez. For about sixteen years I’ve worked at the harder end of computing, the systems that are complex, opaque, or actively trying to hide what they do.

I started in offensive security research, working close to the metal: firmware, kernels, the parts of a machine most people never touch. From there I spent years as a malware analyst and threat-intelligence researcher, taking apart hostile software to understand exactly what it did and how. Then I made a deliberate move. I stepped down from a senior analyst role into junior software engineering to help rebuild critical systems that were failing, and worked my way back up to senior engineer building the platforms that run that kind of analysis at scale.

That arc is the whole point. The through-line isn’t a language or a tool. It’s control over complex, hostile, or opaque environments: walking into something I don’t understand yet, working out how it actually behaves, and building something that holds. Reverse engineering taught me to assume nothing and read the evidence. Platform engineering taught me to make systems reproducible instead of remembered. Put together, that’s what I bring to a business that’s harder to run than it should be.

Faith

I’m a Christian. It’s not a detail about me, it’s the foundation the rest of this stands on. It shapes how I see the world and how I work: honestly, and in service of something bigger than my own comfort or my bank balance. I serve in my church, I spend time discipling and building up other men, and I lead with Trail Life, pouring into the next generation.

Plenty of people will tell you faith has no place in business. I’m not trying to prove them wrong. I already am.

The rest of me

The work isn’t the whole of my life. God comes first, then my family, and the commitments above are where a lot of my time and heart go.

I self-host most of my own software on infrastructure I run and can rebuild from scratch, including this site. I’d rather own my tools and my data than rent them. And I’ve come to believe the body keeps receipts, so I train, usually in old-school, unconventional ways, and I keep teaching myself physical skills that are supposed to be beyond me, mostly to prove that “things I can’t do” is usually just “things I haven’t done yet.”

None of that competes with the work. It’s the same person. The one who’ll sit down with your operational mess and genuinely want to understand it is the same one who spent years taking apart hostile software and still runs his own servers for fun.