Shawn Webb
Board Of Directors Assistant Secretary at Emerald Onion
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorShawn 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)
cpio10
proxy10
interpreter10
chat10
libarchive10
compression10
command-line-tool10
operating-system10
captive-portal10
ftps10
pkg10
api10
tar10
imap10
endpoint-security10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
wayfair-archive/drupal-vulnscan
Jan 2012 - Apr 2012
Contributions:38 commits in 3 months
lattera/presentations
Feb 2014 - Sep 2019
Contributions:37 commits, 6 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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