Stephen Ridley
Professor at Xipiter
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Ridley is a security researcher, author, and professor with 15 years of hands-on experience in software security, reverse engineering, and exploit development. He co-founded and leads technical efforts at boutique firms (Xipiter) and an IoT security platform (Senrio) while serving as adjunct faculty at NYU Tandon where he teaches a custom curriculum on binary exploitation. A former CISO in financial services and founding member of security groups supporting U.S. defense and intelligence customers, he combines operational security leadership with deep vulnerability research across embedded, mobile, and kernel platforms. His research has been featured widely in mainstream and technical press and he’s delivered talks on every continent except Antarctica, reflecting both broad impact and a global technical reach. Based in Manhattan, he also guest lectures at universities and produces hardware tools used across the security industry—an indicator of practical engineering influence beyond papers and presentations.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at Tennessee State UniversityH.B. Woodlawn
Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (7)
backend6
bluetooth5
privacy3
iot3
ruby2
dashboard2
zcash1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
s7ephen/SandKit
Jul 2010 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 5 years 7 months
s7ephen/Tamatebako
Jul 2010 - Nov 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 5 years 5 months
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