Russell Currey
Engineering Lead at InfoSect
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolRussell Currey is an engineering lead and vulnerability researcher with 11 years’ experience focused on Linux kernel security and hardening, formerly leading kernel hardening for IBM Power Systems and now at InfoSect. He blends deep low-level expertise with practical leadership, moving from advisory engineering at IBM to senior research and engineering lead roles that tackle real-world vulnerability discovery and mitigation. A committed open-source hacker and Linux kernel tinkerer, he regularly presents at conferences and applies hands-on exploitation and defense techniques. Based on a Computer Science degree from The University of Queensland and a background in hardware-adjacent kernel work, he brings rare experience defending enterprise-class architectures. Unusually for his role, he balances rigorous engineering with a penchant for playful curiosity—“staring into the abyss” to find the bugs others miss.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of Queensland
Stackoverflow
195reputation
58kreached
3answers
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Github Skills (20)
powerpc10
computer-architecture10
architecture10
c-programming10
linux-kernel10
kernel10
sys10
embedded10
architectures10
pci9
drm8
rendering8
http6
jython6
htmlunit6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ruscur/linux3
Oct 2019 - Mar 2023
Contributions:4393 pushes, 1788 branches in 3 years 5 months
ruscur/op-test-framework
Sep 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:38 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 1 month
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