The shortversion.

I lead information security at a global financial services firm in Boston. By day, I protect infrastructure and build security programs. By night, I build everything else.

Twenty years ago I started in IT support. I worked my way through network security, then security engineering at a major law firm, before landing in financial services. I built out a security function in Hong Kong, spoke at conferences, collected a stack of certifications, and learned to treat every problem like something I could probably just build a solution for.

That habit turned into a real practice. I write Swift and TypeScript. I run a home lab on AMD Strix Halo. I build AI assistants with voice and memory, tinker with smart home automation, fly drones, and occasionally 3D print things nobody asked for.

I registered this domain on March 31, 2001. As of March 2026, niclydon.com is 25 years old — older than Facebook, YouTube, and the iPhone. This version is built and maintained almost entirely by AI agents, which felt like the right way to do it at year twenty-five.

When I’m not at a keyboard I’m usually somewhere far from home. 76 countries since 2007. Shark cage diving in Australia, skydiving in the Philippines, temple-hopping through Kyoto, horseback riding through the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Sydney is still my favorite city in the world.