Ben Goodspeed
Senior Managing Penetration Tester Hacker
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Goodspeed is a Senior Application Security Engineer and longtime practitioner of secure software and infrastructure engineering with 14+ years of experience across consulting, enterprise, and product teams. He blends hands-on penetration testing, secure code review and security automation with architecture and governance—having led security programs, threat and risk assessments, and privacy impact work for public agencies and large organisations. At IBM he drove security research and tooling across SaaS, mobile, mainframe and cloud, logging hundreds of vulnerabilities and contributing to dozens of CVEs, and now applies that offensive-defensive perspective at Clio. He also runs his own consulting practice, focusing on pragmatic security architecture, test automation and process improvement for clients of all sizes. Academically trained with an M.Sc. in Computer Science, his background spans systems administration, networking and developer tooling as well as application development in Ruby, Java, C# and C/C++, which helps him bridge dev and ops teams. Notably, he combines deep technical hunting skills with experience influencing boards and auditors, making technical findings actionable at the organisational level.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Saint Mary's UniversityBCSc Computer Science, Mathematics, BCSc Computer Science, Mathematics at Dalhousie UniversityMount Allison University
Github Skills (3)
no-libraries2
cms1
idris1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bgoodspeed/idris-strings
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 1 month
bgoodspeed/idris-misc
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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