I’m Nick Sanders — a network and security leader by day, a worship minister on Sundays, a veteran, and a writer in the margins. I started Wired Christianity years ago to think out loud about what it looks like to do technical work and take faith seriously at the same time. I’m back at it.
The day job
I run network engineering for Baker Botts LLP, where the throughput problems are real and the tolerance for downtime is roughly zero. Before that I spent three years leading the network team at Triumph Financial (after five years there as the network engineer), and a long stretch before that in regulated, customer-facing environments where “the internet is down” means revenue is bleeding. Zero Trust, SASE, SD-WAN consolidation, security-team co-design — those are the problems I think about on the clock.
For the full professional picture — roles, accomplishments, résumé, referrals — see nicksanders.info.
The ministry
I serve as Worship Minister at Family Church Van Alstyne, a greenfield church plant in North Texas. Before that I led worship at Preston Ridge Baptist (Frisco, interim), Rock City Fellowship (Midlothian), Crosspoint Community (La Grange), and Waddill Street Baptist (McKinney). I’m a licensed minister and a Liberty University alum, B.S. Interdisciplinary Studies.
The service
USAF Security Police, 1991–92. Texas State Guard, Army Civil Affairs, 2013–19, and later as G-5 NCO, 1st Brigade HHQ. Now a veteran, inactive. Some of my best and strangest lessons in leadership came from that chair.
What this blog is for
Tech and faith, from a working practitioner. Leadership lessons from the field. Occasional broadsides at lazy thinking in either camp. Biweekly on Mondays. Everything I publish here is written to be useful — I’d rather run quiet than run filler.
Reprints and reposts
Some of these pieces have run in other outlets. To request a reprint or repost, use the contact form on nicksanders.info and include the article title, your outlet, and where it would appear.
Get in touch
Questions, pushback, topic suggestions all welcome. The contact form on nicksanders.info reaches me reliably; that’s the best place to start.
Unworthy, but His,
—Nick