Lance Vick
Security Engineer at Distrust, LLC
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolLance Vick is a seasoned Security Engineer with 25 years of experience designing and hardening systems for enterprises, startups, and Fortune 500 clients from his base in Palo Alto. He specializes in security architecture, vulnerability assessment and mitigation, authentication schemes, HSMs, supply chain protections, web application hardening, and Linux/*BSD automation. A serial founder and prolific practitioner, he has designed and deployed hundreds of projects and brings a strong sense of ownership and ethics—he’ll decline work he considers unethical. Relentlessly curious, Lance pursues hands-on skills beyond software—locksmithing, electrical engineering, radio, multirotors, robotics, and bio-hacking—which inform pragmatic, cross-domain security solutions. Clients benefit from his blend of deep technical rigor, automation-first thinking, and a talent for turning unique security challenges into auditable, production-ready systems.
25 years of coding experience
Masters, Computational Demonology, Masters, Computational Demonology at Hashbang UniversityInformational Technology, Informational Technology at Ivy Tech Community College
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
hashbang/hashbang.sh
May 2014 - Dec 2019
Public facing website on hashbang.sh with embedded user creation script.
Contributions:133 commits, 19 PRs, 56 pushes in 5 years 7 months
rustuser-creationhashbangembeddedcreation
lrvick/hyve
May 2011 - Jul 2016
Contributions:161 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 5 years 2 months
browserjavascriptbrowser-sidesocial-mediacrawling
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