Justin Wray
Managing Director - Security at NRI North America
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Wray is a seasoned cybersecurity leader and Managing Director of Security with nearly two decades of hands-on experience helping organizations translate security into risk-managed business protection. He founded and led WraySec, has led incident response and security assessments for startups through Fortune 100s, and now directs strategic security investments and operationalization at NRI North America. Justin blends technical depth—from network engineering and penetration testing to cloud and application security—with a risk-first mindset that treats security as governance and process rather than purely a technical problem. His open-source contributions include backend performance work on the popular fbctf CTF platform, where he optimized team-data caching and Memcached usage to significantly improve scale. A former adjunct professor and military warrant officer, he pairs practitioner experience with teaching and operational discipline to help organizations secure their most valuable asset: data.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Computer Science, High School Diploma, Computer Science at Sparrows Point High SchoolAssociate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Network Security, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Network Security at Community College of Baltimore County
Github Skills (7)
performance-tuning10
caching10
php10
mysql10
memcached10
database-optimization10
ctf9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
facebookarchive/fbctf
Oct 2016 - Dec 2017
Platform to host Capture the Flag competitions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:75 commits, 106 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Justin focused on optimizing the performance of database queries within the fbctf platform, specifically for team-related data. Their work involved creating the `MultiTeam` class to cache and reduce the number of database interactions, leading to significant performance improvements. They refactored several methods, including `genTeam()`, `genLeaderboard()`, and `genPointsByType()`, to leverage the `MultiTeam` class and its caching mechanism. They also implemented caching strategies using Memcached for improved data retrieval efficiency.
capture-the-flagctfhostctf-framework
WraySec/fbctf
Oct 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:360 pushes, 53 branches in 1 year 2 months
capture-the-flaghost
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