Falcon Darkstar
Product Security Manager at Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolFalcon Darkstar is a Product Security Manager with 12 years of hands-on experience building pragmatic application security programs and finding vulnerabilities before adversaries do. Based in Seattle, he leads product security at Aiven where he manages compliance requirements, bug bounty operations, automated discovery tooling, a technical risk register, training, and red teaming with a team of generalist security engineers. He previously shaped testing standards and led research and productization efforts at Leviathan Security Group, turning offensive research into client-ready tools and processes. Falcon blends technical depth—from crash analysis and code review to infrastructure and identity systems—with leadership in audit-ready security strategy. Outside corporate work he runs a hacker-operated nonprofit phone project and evaluates amateur radio grants, signaling a long-standing hands-on maker and community focus. He holds an MS in Information Systems and an MBA, pairing technical rigor with strategic operational skills.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc. Computer Science, B. Sc. Computer Science at The University of LethbridgeMaster of Science - MS Information Systems, Master of Science - MS Information Systems at Athabasca UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Western Governors University
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Github Skills (93)
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irc-bot10
javascript10
warc10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
falconkirtaran/ArchiveBot_Control
Apr 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
falconkirtaran/ArchiveBot
Mar 2016 - Nov 2020
ArchiveBot, an IRC bot for archiving websites
Contributions:85 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
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