Nicolas Beltran-Vera

About Nicolas Beltran-Vera

Cybersecurity and CIS student at Baruch College with hands-on experience in IT operations, identity infrastructure, and application security architecture. Focused on how technical decisions translate into business risk, operational outcomes, and accountability.Built and launched Kaldor, a SaaS platform with a security-first architecture emphasizing zero trust principles, access control, and backend enforcement applied in a real product context.Strong interest in technology consulting and cybersecurity advisory roles requiring structured thinking, risk awareness, and systems-level judgment. Drawn to work at the intersection of technical rigor, business context, and meaningful outcomes.

Experience

1. Founder & Product Builder

   Kaldor

   Dec 2025 — Present · NY, US

   Built and operate a judgment-based interview evaluation platform focused on decision quality rather than delivery.• Designed a structured evaluation framework scoring judgment, trade-offs, specificity, impact, and communication.• Implemented role-weighted scoring logic and judgment gating to prevent strong delivery from masking weak decisions.• Built authentication, MFA, and server-side enforcement for evaluations and entitlements.• Integrated subscription payments and access controls with strict backend authorization.• Used internally and with early users to test calibration against polished but hollow responses.

Education

• Baruch College

  Computer Information Systems (BBA), Cybersecurity(BBA), Minor in Law & Policy

• Dutchess Community College

  Coursework Toward Associate's Degree, Computer Science