Ronald Farrer
Principal DevSecOps Engineer at Basilisk Scientific Corp
Bellingham, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRonald Farrer is a Principal DevSecOps Engineer and seasoned cybersecurity practitioner with 11 years of professional experience, currently leading security and infrastructure operations at RedWeek.com while also architecting GPU-accelerated visual intelligence systems at Basilisk Scientific. He blends deep offensive security skills—penetration testing, red/blue/purple team work and IoT hardware hacking—with hands-on DevOps and distributed systems expertise, including CUDA optimization, containerized microservices, and real-time video analytics. His academic path to a PhD in Cybersecurity Management complements practical roots dating back to Debian and Gentoo contributions, reflecting a lifelong commitment to open systems and tooling. Known for squeezing 3.4x performance gains from FFmpeg/H.264 pipelines, he specializes in turning complex visual data streams into actionable intelligence with robust security controls. Based in Bellingham, WA, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strategic security leadership and a persistent curiosity about the shifting frontier of cyber risk.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cybersecurity Management, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Cybersecurity Management at Nova Southeastern UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), History and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History and Computer Science at Western Washington UniversityAAS, HISTORY, AAS, HISTORY at Whatcom Community College
English
Github Skills (24)
revit-api10
seed10
gentoo10
multicore10
linux10
api10
management10
software-design9
ebuild9
surface9
kernel8
desktop8
linux-kernel8
electron7
windows7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gentoo-mirror/gentoo-linux-surface-overlay
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:208 commits in 1 year
rfarrer/zab-smartmon
May 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:9 commits in 1 year 4 months
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