I've spent my career on both sides of the line — breaking systems and building them.
May 2026 — Present
Robinhood ⚔ · Senior Red Team Offensive Security Engineer
Adversary emulation and red team operations.
Nov 2022 — May 2026
Netflix 🛠 · Security Engineer L5
Drove passkeys & MFA modernization for workforce auth. Designed a vendor-footprint knowledge graph and led the Nudge Security rollout. Used LLMs to classify internal support content and manage GenAI vendor risk.
Flagship project · 2019 → present
A group hiking app so friends don't lose each other on the trail when the cell signal dies. Evolved V1 → V2 → V3: SwiftUI iOS app, FastAPI backend on Google Cloud, UWB/BLE ranging, and custom tracker hardware.
Swift · FastAPI · GCP Pub/Sub · UWB · BLE · embedded firmware
2026 · project
WERK — Pebble watchface
A drag-queen Pride watchface for Pebble: a giant wig fills the screen, the time is the makeup, pride stripes sweep on each wrist-flick. 15 rotating wigs.
2026 · project
PebbleOS — BLE central + ANT+
Personal-research fork of PebbleOS adding BLE central-mode support and ANT+ heart-rate tracking, finishing work left by past Pebble devs.
2026 · project
EnergyNet — DC microgrid router
A 3-port 48V DC microgrid router proof-of-concept: PySpice/ngspice half-bridge co-simulation, layered firmware controllers, and hardware design.
2026 · project
Voice — single-user AI Meet
Voice + screen calls with a Claude-powered coding agent.
2026 · project
Flipper Zero firmware
Custom Flipper Zero firmware with a Cache hydration companion app.
2026 · project
Vlog Project Manager
A SaaS project manager for planning, scripting, and producing vlog content.
2026 · project
An online viewer for DICOM files — MRI and X-ray — with 2D/3D visualization.
2026 · project
AI Satellite SMS
Send AI messages via SMS over satellite connections — staying connected off-grid.
2026 · project
Compare loan offers and visualize payback curves to inform interest rates and payoff.
2026 · project
A Time-of-Use calculator for Seattle City Light customers — finds EV charging patterns and estimates costs.
2024 · project
Game Hacking Scoreboard
A scoreboard platform for game-hacking / CTF-style challenges.
2024 · project
Cat Eye Tracker
A computer-vision experiment tracking a cat's gaze.
2022 · project
Tesla Virtual Keyfob
The first virtual Tesla keyfob on the App Store — before Tesla shipped their own.
Jan 2020 — Present
Modern Stack ⚔🛠 · Founder & CEO
Founded a cybersecurity firm making risk-reduction accessible to teams of any size — offensive services (pentesting, DevSecOps, zero trust) plus building product. $300k+ revenue.
Sept 2019 — Dec 2020
Cruise 🛠 · Senior Security Engineer
Built a Data Loss Prevention program for cloud and endpoints, protecting autonomous-vehicle IP through real-time user feedback and improved detection.
2019 · project
An early tool for planning cross-country travel by EV via public charging — a fun geospatial problem.
Jan 2015 — Sept 2019
Praetorian ⚔🛠 · Practice Director
Led scoping and delivery of technical security projects; built the Defense Enablement service line (Google BeyondCorp, Zero Trust) and guided clients through NIST CSF.
▸ full 2013–2019 climb (Security Engineer → Director of IT)
June 2015 — Sept 2019Director of IT — built corporate IT & security stack (Okta, Splunk, Carbon Black, Cloudflare Access), grew the org from 10 to 50+ users.
2017 — Oct 2018Principal Security Engineer — lead across IoT, IR table-tops, internal pentest, purple team, NIST CSF, and web app testing; built custom tooling.
2016 — 2017Senior Security Engineer — network, external/internal, and social-engineering testing. Earned OSCP.
2013 — 2016Security Engineer — penetration testing, report delivery, and custom recommendations for clients.
Class of 2014
University of Texas at Austin · BS, Electrical & Computer Engineering
2008 — 2010 · origin
Hand-built a custom web engine for the family business. Where it all started.