About Me

I’m phenomenally lazy. I hate working so much that I’ll spend a great deal of time thinking about how I can get my job done with as little work as possible. Happily, this turns out to be a quality that results in writing pretty good software and automating as much as possible when it comes to security assessments, hunting for vulnerabilities or scripting responses for incidents.
About Me
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Work Summary

Team Builder: Experience recruiting, growing and leading large and distributed cross functional, engineering, advocacy, and product orgs (150 - 300+) with high productivity, cohesion, and retention while fostering a culture of inclusion & empathy

Cybersecurity Expertise: A highly accomplished Penetration Tester and Cybersecurity Expert with extensive hands-on experience in assessing the security posture of complex IT infrastructures and embedded systems. Proven track record of success securing systems for leading German companies across diverse sectors, including finance, technology, automotive and healthcare. Expertise spans embedded systems, web application, infrastructure, and mobile penetration testing, as well as red teaming engagements. Demonstrated ability to identify and mitigate critical vulnerabilities in high-value systems, such as payment processing platforms, resulting in a significant reduction of security incidents. Holding industry-recognized certifications, including OSCP and OSWE, validating deep technical knowledge and practical skills in penetration testing methodologies.

Open source: 15+ years experience including contributing to 6 of the largest open source projects (Go, Docker, Hugo, MongoDB, Linux, Cobra), defining open source strategies, and creating multiple projects with broad adoption and vibrant contributor & user communities.

Technology expertise: 10 years of professional experience as developer, engineer and cybersecurity expert authoring and contributing to some of the most widely used and respected technologies. Extraordinary breadth and depth across operating systems (Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, Serverless, QNX), languages (C, C++, Assembly, Go, JS, Rust, Lua), databases (SQL, NoSQL, BigData, stream, etc), embedded, desktop, web and mobile.

Engineering Management: 5 years of management experience setting technical and product strategy: establishing innovative technology teams and organization alignment adept at communicating complex technical topics simply to senior management, C-level & clients

Passions

  • Volleyball
  • Mountainbiking
  • Farming