Summary
Loc N is a founder and computer scientist with 15 years of hands-on experience in security research, compiler design, and binary reverse engineering, currently leading NOCSI from the Greater Seattle Area. His background spans government cyber investigations and high-impact industry roles—ranging from the DOJ and DHS to Lockheed Martin, Exodus Intelligence, and Casaba Security—where he focused on malware analysis, exploit development, and digital forensics. He blends deep program semantics and language-design knowledge with pragmatic code-auditing and obfuscation techniques to uncover and mitigate complex threats. Known for cooperative and cooptability analysis, he brings an investigator’s mindset to software problems, often surfacing non-obvious attack vectors through low-level binary work.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Information Systems, Computer Information Systems at Edmonds College
Bachelor's of Science Computer Science Computer Security & Information Assurance Global Engineering, Bachelor's of Science Computer Science Computer Security & Information Assurance Global Engineering at The George Washington University
English, Chinese, Vietnamese