Austen Barker
Senior Member Of Technical Staff, Cyber Security Research And Development at Sandia National Laboratories
California, United States
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Top SchoolAusten Barker is a Senior Member of Technical Staff in Cyber Security R&D at Sandia National Laboratories with a PhD in Computer Science and a decade of experience building secure systems. His work blends systems, storage, and OS expertise with applied security research—recently focusing on deniable storage, steganography, and data exfiltration. He has hands-on experience across cloud and embedded tooling from internships to production research, and has taught operating systems and C programming at UCSC. Based in California, Austen pairs academic rigor with practical engineering to tackle hard-to-detect threats, and brings a curiosity for antiquated technologies that often inspires unconventional defensive approaches.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Homestead High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of California, Santa Cruz - Jack Baskin School of Engineering
Github Skills (34)
blockdevice10
ctf9
debugging9
x869
hacking9
device-mapper9
reverse-engineering9
usermode9
offensive-security9
program-analysis8
dynamic-analysis8
malware8
cybersecurity8
windows8
security8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
atbarker/Artifice
Jan 2018 - Mar 2022
A plausibly deniable block device built on the Linux Device Mapper framework.
Contributions:525 commits, 3 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 years 2 months
blockdevicedevice-mapperlinux
atbarker/AONT-RS
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
An implementation of Resch and Plank's AONT-RS (All or Nothing Transform + Reed-Solomon) information dispersal algorithm.
Contributions:69 commits, 3 PRs, 59 pushes in 1 year 6 months
reed-solomon
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