Ryan Speers
Techncial Consultant, Strategic Advisor, And System Engineeer
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Speers is a technical consultant and systems engineer with 12 years of deep experience in security research, reverse engineering, and hardware/software boundary work—especially low-power RF, firmware, and IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee exploitation. He has founded and led security firms, built operational capabilities for government and commercial clients, and advised C-suite leaders on product security and strategic integrations. Ryan combines hands-on capability development (including notable contributions to the KillerBee ZigBee security toolkit) with program leadership, winning and delivering complex projects under operational constraints. His background spans applied cryptography, network traffic analysis, and hardware penetration testing, with a track record of translating vulnerabilities into deployable tools and mitigations. Comfortable both in the lab and the boardroom, he’s known for growing teams and communicating technical risk to nontechnical stakeholders. Outside work he brings practical field experience from emergency medical and disaster communications roles, reflecting a bias for resilient, mission-oriented solutions.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Dartmouth College
German, English
Github Skills (10)
ieee10
zigbee10
usb10
python10
security10
sys9
firmware9
embedded9
c174
c114
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
riverloopsec/killerbee
Apr 2015 - Nov 2021
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:1 release, 32 reviews, 101 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the `killerbee` repository, a security research toolkit. Their work involved refactoring setup files and updating tools, which improved the framework's maintainability. They also standardized the device driver interface, ensuring consistent frame handling and FCS generation, and included a new firmware image. The user’s contributions demonstrate knowledge of the project's domain and the underlying technologies involved.
security-researchsecurityieee-802-15-4zigbeeieee
IonicDev/ionic-devreq-api-python
Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
Example Python Code for Interacting with Ionic's Device Request API
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 7 months
python-codeapipythonapi-requestionic
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