Hey, I'm Ryan

I’m a senior software engineer on Slack's Product Security Foundations team. I like weird music, modern board games, podcasts, and oxford commas. In other news, I live in Brooklyn.

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Talks I've given

  • Canary in the Datamines: Using Log Canary to find PII

    Why does sensitive data always seem to end up places it shouldn't? We won't answer that, but we will tell you how we combat the problem. Log Canary probes our product for places where PII might leak into logs, so that we can resolve the issue before real data is written. Join us as we explain the concept and lessons learned in development and deployment.

    Talk given at: LocoMocoSec 2020
  • 10,000 Dependencies Under the Sea

    Come on our journey of creating scalable tooling and processes to automatically identify vulnerabilities in third-party libraries and handle the question of “ok we found this, who’s going to fix it?”

    Talk given at: DEF CON 28: AppSec Village