Ian Carroll
Founder at Seats.aero
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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RockstarIan Carroll is a security-focused founder and researcher with 12 years of experience uncovering vulnerabilities across software and hardware, including multiple CVEs and recognized bug bounty awards. He founded Seats.aero while operating Localhost LLC, which leverages a publicly routed ASN (AS398328) and multi-homed peering for carrier-diverse, high-fidelity security research. Ian has held senior security engineering roles at Robinhood, BitMEX, and Dropbox/HelloSign, blending incident prevention, threat modeling, and offensive discovery. His work spans practical vulnerability disclosure, running live research infrastructure, and advising on production security at scale. Based in Las Vegas, he combines entrepreneurial initiative with deep hands-on technical expertise in real-world attack surfaces. An unusual strength is his operation of a public network specifically tuned to support advanced bug hunting and responsible disclosure.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
content-security-policy10
pattern10
api10
hidden10
matching10
nodejs10
headers10
php10
orm10
python10
windows10
orm-framework10
javascript10
hacklang10
bundle10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
certly/threatexchange
Dec 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:6 releases, 11 commits, 2 PRs in 10 months
wearehx/policies
Dec 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 11 PRs, 18 pushes in 8 months
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