Nick Peterson

Lead Cybersecurity Engineer

Target Corporation

March 2026 - Present

Developed and maintained OAuth authorization infrastructure supporting secure authentication and authorization flows across Target Corporation’s digital platforms.

Senior Software Engineer

Samsung Smartthings

January 2025 - March 2026

Designed, developed, and maintained backend microservices powering Samsung’s Internet of Things platform supporting over 2.5 million daily active users.
Collaborated on the redesign of the hub connection and device command processing system, improving cloud reliability and reducing costs.
Built and optimized distributed microservices leveraging AWS DynamoDB, Redis Caching, and Redis Streams to achieve low-latency, high-throughput performance.
Implemented and managed cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform ensuring consistent, secure, and scalable deployments.
Developed new features with an emphasis on feature flagging and monitoring systems to reduce risk during deployments and feature rollouts.

Lead Software Engineer

Target Corporation

August 2021 - January 2025

Collaborated with a team of business leaders, engineers, designers, and product owners in the design and implementation of a new, built from scratch, e-commerce platform for the bulk purchase of Gift Cards by Business Clients. The project including external, internal, and agent facing web apps. Our platform went live in June 2024 and facilitated over $200 million in revenue that year.
Implemented User Interfaces using Next.js, React, Typescript, React Query, and Webpack.
Developed a custom Oauth2 integration with Target's Guest Security Platform that facilitated server side rendering and automatic routing based on a users profile status.
Developed a PCI compliant micro-frontend that was built using Webpack Module Federation and deployed as a static Javascript bundle to Google Cloud Platform.
Designed and implemented frontend and backend performance monitoring and alerting patterns using InfluxDB, Kibana, Grafana, and Shuttle IO.
Developed REST API Microservices using Micronaut and Kotlin.
Led the production environment set up and roll out effort. We had a clean production go live with no major incidents.
Led the security development efforts including setting up frontend and backend controls to prevent known attack vectors. Prioritizing secure development from the beginning resulted in our PEN tests coming back with no major findings, saving us time and resources.
Designed and built a Kafka filtering service that allowed the team to test our data migration in a "Go-Live" environment while ensuring that production PI data would not leak into lower environments.
Supported the team through montoring interns and engineers.
Developed two side project tools, Git1s and Git History, that are used by engineers throughout Target Tech to more effectively use Github.

Full Stack Developer

Lively Apps

January 2020 - September 2021

Developed and maintained apps currently available on the Atlassian marketplace for Confluence and Jira. Including Pocket Query, Task Reminder, Hide Elements, Usage Statistics for Confluence and more.
Won second place in the 2020 Codegeist hackathon for the Lively Recorder.
Developed frontend and backend features using Typescript, JQuery, React, Java and Spring.
Solved support tickets, interacting directly with customers.

Software Quality Assurance Intern

Garmin

September - December 2019

Designed and built an internal tool that automated the scraping of test data from Garmin devices, saving QA engineers hours of time each week.
Authored and maintained well organized test cases
Developed internal tools using Python and C++

Full Stack Software Engineer

Professional Experience

Education

The University of British Columbia

The University of Minnesota Duluth

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