BACKGROUND
Security Background
18 years of breaking things. And building them better.
DEFCON 15
Presented "Hacking Social Lives: MySpace.com" at DEFCON 15 in Las Vegas at age 20. Discovered and disclosed vulnerabilities in the world's largest social network at the time. That talk set the trajectory for everything that followed: building secure systems requires understanding how they break.
Offensive Security
18 years of penetration testing, vulnerability research, and security architecture. From web application testing to infrastructure audits to social engineering assessments. The experience spans startups to enterprise, fintech to healthcare, traditional systems to Web3. Every product built at Zero to Ten starts with a threat model because security is not something you add after launch.
CCSS Auditor
Certified CryptoCurrency Security Standard (CCSS) Auditor, certified by the CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4). Bridging traditional security practices with the unique challenges of digital asset custody, key management, and decentralized architectures.
Philosophy
Security isn't a feature you add later. It's the foundation everything else is built on. Every system I build starts with a threat model.