Shawn Webb
Board Of Directors Assistant Secretary at Emerald Onion
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarShawn Webb is a seasoned security engineer and open-source leader with 15 years of experience building and hardening operating systems, firmware, and backend services. As co-founder and president of the HardenedBSD Foundation, he spearheaded implementation of ASLR, SafeStack, and CFI integrations, and built secure binary update and package infrastructure that influenced downstream projects. Currently a senior security consultant at IOActive focusing on communications satellite firmware and services, he pairs deep code-audit expertise with practical exploit validation. He also volunteers as Board Assistant Secretary for a Colorado metro district and has a long history of mentoring and leading development teams across commercial and open-source projects. Notably, HardenedBSD under his stewardship became the first OS to ship SafeStack, reflecting a rare combination of research-grade security engineering and product delivery.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
rtsp10
programming-language10
security-hardening10
archiving10
cpio10
package-management10
http10
bash10
websocket10
lzma10
security10
pop310
backup10
pager10
libarchive10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
lattera/dotfiles
Oct 2011 - Nov 2020
Contributions:36 commits, 10 pushes in 9 years 2 months
HardenedBSD/pkg-automation
Sep 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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