Garth Boyd
Co-Founder And CTO at VenteNova
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGarth Boyd is a seasoned security architect and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and breaking secure software and cloud systems. As Co-Founder and CTO at VenteNova and founder of boutique firm DeviousPlan, he blends threat modelling, DevSecOps, and offensive testing to help organizations mature security for web apps and AWS/Azure deployments. He has led security programs and red-team mentoring at Fortune 75 customers, driven AppSec initiatives at SurveyMonkey and Clio, and built crypto and PKI solutions earlier in his career at IBM. Known for thinking creatively under constraints—“six impossible things before breakfast”—he pairs deep technical craft (from pen testing to key management) with practical architecture and training that scales across teams. Based in Ottawa, he brings rare breadth spanning product security, cloud architecture, and startup-building expertise.
10 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Electrical Computer Systems Operating Systems Design Data Communications Electronics, Bachelor of Engineering Electrical Computer Systems Operating Systems Design Data Communications Electronics at Carleton University
English, French, German
Stackoverflow
195reputation
30kreached
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Github Skills (148)
penetration-testing10
testing10
enumeration10
security10
maltego10
dns10
owasp10
methodology10
golang10
azure10
information-gathering10
application-security10
discovery10
pentesting10
network-security10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
OWASP-Ottawa/BSidesOttawa
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:22 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
OWASP-Ottawa/PresentationSlides
Feb 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:24 commits, 16 PRs, 59 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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