John Ford
Senior Security Consultant at NetSPI
Deerfield, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Ford is a Senior Security Consultant with a decade of hands-on experience delivering red team, penetration testing, and adversary simulation engagements to improve enterprise security posture. He combines deep technical expertise in AD exploitation, C2 frameworks, and physical pen-testing with strong scripting and software skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash, C/C++/C#) to both emulate attackers and automate remediation. A prolific mentor and organizer, he has grown university security clubs, created training content for national cyber competitions, and helped secure a national CTF championship with bespoke Linux defense tooling. Outside assessments he builds scalable pen-testing environments with Terraform, experiments with AI for image-forgery detection, and even mixes creative pursuits—tap and ballroom dance, watchmaking, and music—into a broad hobbyist-driven problem-solving approach.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Non-Degree Pursuing, Jazz/Jazz Studies, Non-Degree Pursuing, Jazz/Jazz Studies at VanderCook College of MusicMaster of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology
English, Polish, SpanishProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RedefiningReality/Linux-Defence-Materials
Apr 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:149 pushes in 1 year 4 months
SuperAwesomeCoder1/Chrome-Guardian
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 19 pushes in 1 day
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