Kevin Conley
Team Lead, Principal Security Engineer at Riot Games
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Conley is a Principal Security Engineer and team lead at Riot Games with a decade of experience securing large-scale game infrastructure and leading cross-functional security teams. He progressed through technical roles from threat analyst to principal engineer, blending hands-on offensive tooling with strategic program leadership. A self-described "security nerd," Kevin contributes to open source projects like RsaCtfTool, improving cryptography compatibility and pragmatic tooling for real-world attacks and CTFs. Based in Atlanta with advanced engineering degrees from WPI, he pairs deep cryptographic and network knowledge with a knack for making complex security controls operational and developer-friendly. Notably, his career path shows a steady shift from analyst work to shaping security posture and team capability at scale.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Walpole High SchoolMaster’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (9)
integrate10
lib10
python10
rsa10
cryptography10
integrations10
code-cleanup9
maintenance9
error-handling9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
RsaCtfTool/RsaCtfTool
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
RSA attack tool (mainly for ctf) - retrieve private key from weak public key and/or uncipher data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 7 PRs, 16 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kevin focused on enhancing the RSA attack tool by addressing compatibility issues with different cryptography libraries. They wrapped import statements for the `cryptodome` and `cryptodomex` libraries with try/except blocks to ensure the code functions correctly regardless of the installed library. The user also made minor improvements, such as updating timeouts to apply by default and addressing naming conventions within the codebase, demonstrating a focus on maintaining code quality and adapting the tool for different cryptographic environments.
cryptographypublic-keyrsaprivate-keysecurity
kmanc/cryptopals
Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
Crypto challenges from https://cryptopals.com/
Contributions:22 PRs, 50 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
cryptographyblockchaincryptocryptopalscryptocurrency
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