Reed Loden
Head Of Security IT at Beyond Paranoid
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarReed Loden is Head of Security & IT at Hex and an information security leader with 18 years of experience protecting products and infrastructure for organizations such as Teleport, HackerOne, Lookout, Palantir and Mozilla. He combines hands-on engineering and research — from hardening build and deployment pipelines (enabling FIPS builds, disabling legacy IMDSv1 fallbacks) to improving security tooling like bundler-audit and the ruby-advisory-db — with operational security and GRC leadership. Reed organizes the Bay Area security community as President and Lead Organizer of Security BSides San Francisco and runs part-time consulting through Beyond Paranoid. He’s an active open-source contributor across front-end and back-end projects and, per his GitHub bio, has a fondness for carrots.
19 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (54)
bugzilla10
github-ci10
javascript10
docker10
dockerce10
jquery10
bootstrap10
github-actions-workflows10
bootstrap210
audit10
perl10
dockers10
security10
ruby10
go10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
rubysec/ruby-advisory-db
Apr 2015 - Jan 2023
A database of vulnerable Ruby Gems
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 324 commits, 205 PRs in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Reed primarily focused on improving the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for the project. Their contributions include adding Travis CI support and configuring it to automatically update the rubysec website after successful commits. They also updated Travis CI credentials, and configured the git settings for the CI process. They added testing of the advisory naming conventions, and fixed YAML file loading errors.
vulnerableruby-gemsvulnerabilitiesrubysecurity-advisories
Hacker0x01/hacker101
Jan 2018 - Jun 2021
Source code for Hacker101.com - a free online web and mobile security class.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 54 commits, 26 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Reed primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Hacker101 website. Their work involved updating the HTML structure, including adding and modifying meta tags, as well as fixing broken links. They were also involved in UI improvements, such as adding a favicon and correcting Google Analytics integration. Furthermore, they upgraded the site's Bootstrap and jQuery dependencies.
checklistxssapplication-securityclickjackingsecurity
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