T C is a seasoned IT professional with close to 20 years experience. His first exposure to practical uses of information technology was in the early 70’s while at an air route traffic control center tracking Santa on IBM 360 Systems. In primary school he taught the computer classes and has always had an infosec mindset. He has mostly played defense in terms of professional information security, but has recently changed teams to work on offensive security and OSINT. Before joining [REDACTED] he worked for Sun Microsystems debugging other people's kernel code, Level 3 engineering a 12k node CDN, and more recently as a solutions engineer for Logrhythm.