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The best way I can think of to sum up my professional experience is that I like to wear many hats, and am especially attracted to complex, difficult, and high stakes security problems. I have helped deliver projects ranging ranging the gamut of security engineering, including high stakes crypto custody (both modern MPC solutions and traditional HSM solutions), mobile authentication, CI/CD pentesting and hardening, internal PKI and mTLS implementation, microservice segmentation and authentication, and beyond. I have also worked on the breaking side of many of these same areas and (with full permission to do so) have found novel exploits, including chaining seemingly benign issues into full blown stored XSS, implementing custom malware to bypass modern anti-virus and DLP protections, and compromising CI/CD pipelines to gain privileged access to sensitive environments.I have experience working in GoLang, Ruby, and some Python.

Listed skills include Penetration Testing, Security, Cloud Computing, Xslt, and 26 others.