Summary
Don A. Bailey is a founder and information security researcher with nearly a decade of focused experience securing mobile, IoT, and embedded systems. He was an early public voice on IoT risk, delivering global talks and practical research that demonstrated widespread vulnerabilities across consumer and industrial devices. Don has led and advised security programs from startups to standards bodies—serving as CEO of Lab Mouse entities, chairing RISC-V security efforts, and mentoring accelerator teams—bridging hands-on exploit development with pragmatic remediation. His background includes low-level firmware and platform work (ARM, MIPS, x86) and pioneering exploit techniques dating back to early ROP and custom shellcode research. Now based in Clarkston, Michigan, he runs a small consultancy focused on pragmatic IoT and embedded security while also cultivating agricultural entrepreneurship with Field Mouse Farm. His personal motto, "Truth takes time," reflects a patient, research-driven approach to uncovering hard-to-find threats.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
University of Michigan