Dave Hart
CISO at Packaging Corporation of America
Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Hart is a seasoned cybersecurity executive and current CISO with over 28 years in the field and 17 years in senior leadership roles, based in Maryland. He blends enterprise security strategy with hands-on engineering experience dating back to developing NTP reference implementations and contributing to Windows NT security and app compatibility in the 1990s. At Packaging Corporation of America he leads security programs that translate complex risk into auditable, business-aligned controls. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved portability and robustness in the widely used libevent library by hardening tests, builds, and debug locking. His background in business administration and computer programming enables him to bridge technical depth with pragmatic governance and operational rigor.
17 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration; Computer Programming, Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration; Computer Programming at Lakeland College
Github Skills (8)
c1710
cross-platform10
c1110
testing10
networking9
build-system9
debugging8
async7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
libevent/libevent
Jun 2023 - Jun 2023
Event notification library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dave primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements related to the test suite and build process. Their work involved modifying test scripts for Solaris compatibility and adjusting the build configuration to handle out-of-tree builds and prevent spurious warnings. Furthermore, the user addressed potential lock-coding errors by adding a magic number to debug locks. These changes focused on improving the robustness and portability of the library.
networkingnotificationevent-notificationcross-platformasync
hart-NTP/oss-fuzz
Feb 2024 - Jul 2024
OSS-Fuzz - continuous fuzzing for open source software.
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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