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Who am I?

I partner with organizations to predict future risks and then design and deliver solutions to intercept those risks and allow the business to focus on delivering results for their customers.

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EXPERIENCE

  • Senior Security Engineer

    True Anomaly | 2025-Current

    Security generalist supporting terrestrial and orbital security missions.

  • Staff Security Engineer

    Truework | 2021-2025

    Multi-disciplinary technical leader supporting startup operations through a proactive, engineering-forward approach to problem-solving. Responsibilities included corporate security, application security, CI/CD and DevOps, infrastructure security, cloud architecture, endpoint security, product security, and cultivating a positive security culture. Anticipated and solved a wide variety of business problems before they became crises.

  • Offensive Security Engineer

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | 2018-2021

    Red Team member for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Focused on delivering high quality red team engagements, building usable, scalable, continuous reconnaissance platforms that enable proactive detection of security problems, and partnering with blue team partners to level up detection capabilities.

  • Red Team Engineer

    Intel Corporation | 2016-2018

    Performed on multiple engagements doing attack modeling on large scale environments. Development of custom tooling to support red team operations. Involved in red teaming multiple proof of concept deployments for security products.

  • Quality & Reliability Engineer

    Intel Corporation | 2015-2017

    Primary responsibilities included test development, infrastructure development, and device-level quality and reliability testing for next generation Intel Solid State Drives. Worked closely with firmware development to integrate necessary test hooks and build parsing tools for diagnostic data. My primary focus in this role was supporting Intel 3D XPoint products in the Intel Optane line.

VALUES

Strive for Excellence

While I may never be an Olympic athlete, and I’ll probably never create a billion dollar company, and I’ll probably never make a ground breaking scientific discovery, I should still strive to be the very best at whatever it is I do. This striving is what produces exceptional results.

Lessons in Everything

Failure is a fantastic teacher, and we should embrace it just as we embrace success. Whether we succeed or fail at something, there are lessons to be learned. We just have to open our eyes and look for them. Every experience can be a learning experience.

Embrace Curiosity

The world is large, even when it feels like it is getting smaller everyday with the advent of the internet and social media. There are whole domains we know nothing about. Embrace curiosity and develop that never-ending feeling of “I wonder…” - use it to expand your world-view.

Motivation Follows Action

We can reach motivation through action. Waiting for motivation is fickle, but taking action is a pretty sure-fire way to feel motivated. It’s just a matter of finding ways to take action even when motivation is missing. This could be through cultivating discipline or through carefully constructed triggers.

Autonomy

We all have the capacity for achieving anything we set our minds to, but it requires self-directed action. Waiting for external forces to tell us what to do will ensure that we can never truly achieve excellence.

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PROJECTS

Technical Reviewer

I served as a technical reviewer for O’Reilly’s Security Chaos Engineering, written by Kelly Shortridge and Aaron Rinehart.

Natlas

Primary developer and maintainer for an open source continuous reconnaissance platform called Natlas used by many Fortune 100 companies. Natlas instances have scanned millions of hosts hundreds of millions of times.

Sephiroth

Sephiroth is a simple open source utility designed to facilitate the easy blocking of entire Clouds. Designed with Red Team use in mind, it has also become a useful tool for mitigating AI crawlers.

Untitled Film Project

I am a Cyber Security Consultant on an untitled film project for a motion picture studio that you’ve heard of but that I cannot name.

CTF Challenge Author

I have created dozens of CTF challenges for both public and private CTFs, across a variety of categories - primarily focused on web, OSINT, and miscellaneous challenges. CTFs I’ve written for include BSides PDX 2018, 2019, and 2020 as well as 2 years of internal employee CTFs at Truework.

VOLUNTEERING

  • Contests & Events

    DEF CON | 2025-Current

    Supporting community-run contests and events at the world’s largest hacking conference.

  • Conference Coordinator & Review Board

    Red Team Summit | 2021-Current

    Maintaining year-over-year continuity and coordinating future events for Red Team Summit.

  • Community Organizer

    Red Team Cabal | 2017-Current

    Supporting an invitation-only, international community of professional red teamers from across every industry, facilitating knowledge exchange and network building opportunities.

  • Red Team Volunteer

    CCDC At-Large | 2017-2018

    Volunteered my Red Team skillset for the CCDC At-Large competition, allowing college students that didn’t otherwise fall into an existing CCDC region the opportunity to exercise their defensive security skillset while undergoing real attacks.

  • Community Organizer

    DC916 | 2016-2018

    Revived the Sacramento regional DEF CON group through twice-monthly meetups in the form of workshops, lectures, social gatherings, and hardware badge creation.

  • Technical Mentor

    US CyberPatriot | 2016-2018

    Mentored an award-winning team of students who competed in the CyberPatriot X event. Focused on building hands-on experience through labs, as well as developing a deeper understanding of defense through the lens of offense.

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Consulting

I am available for security advisory roles for early- and mid- stage tech startups, as well as short-term consulting engagements to support security, engineering, and IT teams in meeting their security goals, provided there is no conflict with existing relationships.

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