Speaking Samples
Developing a Security Mindset: Practical Lessons for Pythonistas
Develop your security mindset, with a little help from the luminaries of British detective fiction.
Securing Serverless by Breaking In
I compromise a sample serverless app and give general recommendations for serverless security.
A Post Mortem on the Ingen Incident
The premise behind this talk was that I am a software developer with an interest in Chaos Engineering and Engineering Ethics who was brought in by Ingen to do a post mortem after the events depicted in Jurassic Park.
Writing Samples
Django Security Best Practices Cheat Sheet
Write secure Django applications!
A year-old dormant malicious remote code execution vulnerability discovered in Webmin
This is a blog post I turned around in a day to respond to a new malicious attack.
Engineering Ethics and the Responsible Use of Open Source Software
This post includes a brief overview on some of the benefits and challenges associated with the use of Open Source Software. I also list ideas for maintainers, companies, individuals, and communities who are interested in using Open Source in an ethical way.
Sample Project
In Case of Emergency
This is a sample project that was a runner up (out of more than 200 projects) for a recent Twilio x DEV hackathon.
In Case of Emergency provides the following via text to emergency personnel or a Good Samaritan who finds you in need:
- Medically relevant information(allergies, known conditions, blood type, anything that you personally would want a doctor to know in an emergency)
- Medications and any relevant dosing information
- Names and phone numbers of your emergency contacts