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Ron Bowes

My introduction!

Since I'm pretty new here, and I got a whole pile of new followers last night, I figured I'd post my own ! Peer pressure etc. :)

In my non-professional life, I'm a living in (been in the US since 2013), I have a cool husband named Chris, and we have two pet - green cheek (GCCs) named Clang (like the C compiler) and Sharp (like C#).

Professionally, I've been interested in or working in kinda forever.. in highschool I used to write hacks and cheats for Starcraft / Diablo 2, some of which are on my GitHub profile. They don't work anymore, of course, but you can see what my old C++ code used to look like :)

Then I went to university at the University of , got a degree, and worked as a programmer before having a bunch of different infosec jobs - most recently, Google and Counter Hack.

These days, I'm a Lead Security Researcher at @greynoise where I spend all day analyzing network traffic to look for vulneraiblities. I get to write them up on GreyNoise Grimoire, give talks about vulns that I think are cool, and do any kind of open source development that I find interesting!

I also develop challenges, particularly for . We release everything open source afterwards, so you can run them yourself or see our solutions. I also write about them on my blog - although, since I write semi-professionally now, I don't write much other than CTF writeups there.

And finally, me and a bunch of friends founded a called in like 2012, which is 's best (also only) hackerspace. I haven't been there forevvver, but I'm still a card-carrying member and look forward to visiting again some day. I also help run The Long Con, Winnipeg's premier community security conference!

It's great to meet all y'all!

Updated March/2024


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