Shaun Colley
Summary
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RockstarShaun 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
Github Skills (27)
crypto10
solana10
node-client10
ledger9
bitcoin9
blockchain9
rust8
go8
language-modeling8
android7
golang6
audio6
fyne6
ios6
artificial-intelligence6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
smcio/firedancer
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Firedancer is Jump Crypto's Solana consensus node implementation.
Contributions:21 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
Overclock-Validator/sniper
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
A simple and efficient thread-safe key/value store for Go
Contributions:1 release, 7 pushes, 1 tag in 3 months
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