I'm Nico, AKA nicoandmee on the internet. I spent a decade reverse-engineering Akamai, PerimeterX, and Datadome — the systems large sites use to block automated traffic — and building collection infrastructure that outlasted every countermeasure they shipped.
The through-line of my work is adversarial systems: code written by someone actively trying to defeat you. I've been on both sides of it — red-team work as a teenager, then years keeping distributed scraping platforms alive against the vendors built to shut them down, serving thousands of clients at 10M+ collection events a day.
I'm independent and between roles right now. These days I study those same systems more to understand how they're built than to get around them — going deep on the ECMAScript spec, functional programming, and the parts of the language most people never need to touch. I also read a lot of literature, history, and the liberal arts, and write where that meets security and software.
The full history is on the work page, the writing lives on the blog, and there's more about me here. UCLA CS · Irvine, CA.
You can find me at the links below.
