Nicholas Crew Ferguson

Open-Source Portfolio

I modernize the infrastructure teams run on. Every company I've walked into had the same problem: legacy systems held together with scripts and tribal knowledge. I fix that, then build the platform that runs without me.


SYNAPSE
Detect. Decide. Fire.

Embedded intelligence for API security and application defense. All detection and blocking decisions happen locally at the edge. Zero external dependencies. True air-gap deployment.

Rust
pingora
72K+
Req/sec
25MB
Binary
~450μs
e2e latency
AGPL-3
License
The Atlas Crew Security platform
See how Synapse, Chimera, Crucible, and Bridge close the loop together



Line-rate DLP: the literal-first split that runs data loss prevention inline

11 min read · Sub-millisecond DLP on multi-megabyte payloads with zero false positives. Aho-Corasick scanning, zero-allocation validators, an 8KB soft cap, and parallel execution with upstream I/O.

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Available for Contract Work

Infrastructure modernization, platform engineering, and developer experience. I walk into legacy systems and rebuild them into something that runs without me.

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