Dean Pierce is a Security Engineer and offensive security researcher based in Portland with over a decade of experience hardening Linux-based platforms and attacking enterprise networks across server, workstation, mobile, home, and automotive domains. He has blended product security and research roles at ConsenSys, Intel, and Polygon, focusing recently on crypto, smart contract, and blockchain security while also building AI-driven SDLC tooling at Panasonic. Dean’s background spans red team tool development, protocol- and crypto-level wireless attacks (802.11/802.16/GSM), and deep expertise in static analysis and secure development pipelines. As a founder and CTO in local security initiatives, he brings both hands-on exploit knowledge and pragmatic engineering to make security actionable for development teams. Notably, his career threads practical kernel- and system-level work with modern blockchain assurance, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective on emerging attack surfaces.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Mathematics, BS Computer Science Mathematics at Portland State University
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