Shaun Colley
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolShaun Colley is a security-focused software engineer and entrepreneur with over a decade of hands-on experience in firmware, kernel & driver security, reverse engineering, native code review, and blockchain risk. He has founded and directed security consultancies including Dark Waves InfoSec and SASec, and held senior consulting and penetration testing roles at firms such as IOActive, MDSec and Barclays. Comfortable in C, C++, Rust, Go and Java, he combines deep low-level technical skill with practical threat assessment for real-world systems. Based in London, Shaun blends research-grade reverse engineering with client-facing consulting, translating complex vulnerabilities into actionable remediation. His background in chemistry suggests a methodical, investigative approach to security problems that often uncovers subtle implementation flaws.
4 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Chemistry, BSc (Hons), Chemistry at University of Leeds
Github Skills (37)
solana10
ledger9
anchor9
crypto9
bitcoin9
blockchain9
cryptocurrency9
rust8
scalable8
scale8
ethereum8
fyne8
consensus8
ios7
golang7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Overclock-Validator/mithril
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Implementation of Solana core modules in Go
Contributions:56 pushes, 6 comments, 16 issues in 1 year 9 months
smcio/firedancer
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Firedancer is Jump Crypto's Solana consensus node implementation.
Contributions:21 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
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