Reed Loden
Head Of Security & IT at BSidesSF
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolReed Loden is a seasoned information security leader with 19 years of experience, currently serving as Head of Security & IT at Hex and previously as VP of Security at Teleport. He blends hands-on engineering, research, and incident-aware operational security—having secured products at HackerOne, Lookout, Palantir, and Mozilla—while running part-time consulting through Beyond Paranoid. An active open-source contributor, Reed has improved CI/CD and security tooling across notable projects like ruby-advisory-db, bundler-audit, Teleport, and Hacker101, helping raise the bar for supply-chain and web security. He organizes the Bay Area security community as President and Lead Organizer of Security BSides San Francisco, translating community insight into practical defensive programs. A Computer Science alumnus of Mississippi State University based in San Francisco, Reed is known for pragmatic fixes (from XSS/CSRF mitigations in Bugzilla to FIPS builds and IAM hardening) and an unusual fondness for carrots.
19 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Mississippi State University
English
Github Skills (46)
bugzilla10
github-ci10
javascript10
docker10
jquery10
bootstrap10
audit10
perl10
dockers10
cicd10
ruby10
security10
go10
aws10
html10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
rubysec/ruby-advisory-db
Apr 2015 - Jan 2023
A database of vulnerable Ruby Gems
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 324 commits, 205 PRs in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Reed primarily focused on improving the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for the project. Their contributions include adding Travis CI support and configuring it to automatically update the rubysec website after successful commits. They also updated Travis CI credentials, and configured the git settings for the CI process. They added testing of the advisory naming conventions, and fixed YAML file loading errors.
vulnerableruby-gemsvulnerabilitiesrubysecurity-advisories
Hacker0x01/hacker101
Jan 2018 - Jun 2021
Source code for Hacker101.com - a free online web and mobile security class.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 54 commits, 26 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Reed primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Hacker101 website. Their work involved updating the HTML structure, including adding and modifying meta tags, as well as fixing broken links. They were also involved in UI improvements, such as adding a favicon and correcting Google Analytics integration. Furthermore, they upgraded the site's Bootstrap and jQuery dependencies.
checklistxssapplication-securityclickjackingsecurity
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