Tod Beardsley is a Austin at Texas. Colleagues describe them as "Tod is the best person I can imagine to lead the content/framework program for Metasploit. He's been a hacker since he was a wee chap, and he has a very strong sense of ethics in a business that can be, well, shady at times. His attitude is relentlessly friendly, and everyone likes working with him. I really appreciate his militant advocacy of FOSS, as well as his deep knowledge of both the technical aspects of security and the more fuzzy, people-oriented techniques necessary to run a proper vuln disclosure program. We need more Tod in the world." and "Beardsley possesses a rare combination of wit, technical acumen, and sinister motivation. We worked together at BreakingPoint, and if it came down to it, I would find a way to blackmail him into working together again. He writes software I both use and complain about. That’s largely a good thing, because most people’s software I would just rewrite myself. He’s the kind of talented developer that will not eschew less sexy aspects of a project because they are beneath him. Instead, he completes those tasks and five more, and better than whoever your second choice would have been. Beardsley is a natural leader, and the kind of person that others simply follow because he knows the art of subtle manipulation and is a student of “How to Make Friends and Influence People.” A++ would purchase again."