Ryan Adamson
Group Leader HPC Security And Information Engineering
Knoxville Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Adamson is a seasoned HPC security leader with nearly two decades at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, currently heading the HPC Security and Information Engineering and HPC Core Operations groups supporting the nation’s fastest supercomputers. He combines deep systems and security engineering expertise—spanning Linux, containers, orchestration, IDS, telemetry, and cryptography—with hands-on coding in languages from Python to C++. Ryan’s team builds scalable security services and monitoring platforms for mission-critical HPC environments, and he routinely practices responsible vulnerability disclosure, including several CVE-class discoveries. His current research explores how organizational constraints and guarantees around uptime and security inhibit cross-organizational collaboration, blending operational experience with applied research. Based in Knoxville, he pairs academic training (MS CS, PhD studies) with practical, production-focused leadership and a persistent curiosity about emerging systems and protocols.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering at Tennessee Technological UniversityBS, Computer Science, Mathematics, BS, Computer Science, Mathematics at Virginia TechMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (47)
testing10
coverage10
security9
linux9
fuzzer9
aws-batch9
kernel9
security-vulnerability9
fuzzing9
sqrt8
passwords8
scrypt8
slurm7
iteration7
password-generator7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rmadamson/rmadamson
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
Me, Myself, and sqrt(-1)
Contributions:1 review, 21 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
myselfsqrt
rmadamson/kubernetes-factorio
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
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