Nick Sullivan leads the security engineering team at CloudFlare. He built many of the content security mechanisms for Apple’s multi-billion dollar iTunes store. He previously worked as a security analyst worked at Symantec analyzing large scale threat data.
Nick is a hands-on engineering leader, software developer, and security architect with deep expertise in cryptography, computer security, software protection, information security, digital rights management and distributed systems. He is passionate about building and breaking secure systems and moving the state of computer security forward through technological innovation, open source software, writing, and speaking. His security expertise has been cited by news organizations including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Bloomberg, Wired, re/code, The Verge, Schneier Blog, CBC, Ars Technica and others.