Calif | Hackers gonna hack, be prepped

Our mission is to defend the world’s critical digital infrastructure.

Who We Serve

Developers or operators of critical software systems

Non-profit organizations, hospitals, and the world’s forces for good

Team

Leadership

Thai Duong /thaidn

Prolific security researcher, with work featured on the New York Times and the BBC
Ex-Google world-wide security and cryptography lead, helping defend Gmail, Android, YouTube, etc.
Contributor to Google Tink, Project Wycheproof, and SSL attack trilogy BEAST, CRIME, POODLE
Invited speaker at Harvard Kennedy School's Vietnam Executive Leadership Program
Speaker at Real World Crypto, Black Hat Europe, Ekoparty, IEEE S&P, USENIX Security
Notable awards and honors

Pwnie Award 2011 for Best Server-Side Bug
Feats of Engineering Google Award 2017, 2019
Top Ten Web Hacking Techniques Award 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

An Trinh

Research-driven penetration tester
Multiple maximum bounties from PayPal, Netflix, Walmart
100% success rate in past red teaming engagements
Speaker at Black Hat Europe, ZeroNights St. Petersburg, BSides Singapore

Advisors

Michał Zalewski /lcamtuf

Michał is a long-time industry veteran, the author of groundbreaking security tools such as afl-fuzz, and a celebrated security researcher with several notable books under his belt. He is a former Google employee and currently the VP of Security Engineering at Snap.

Parisa Tabriz

Parisa is a Vice President of Engineering and General Manager of Chrome at Google. She is also responsible for Project Zero, a security research team that aims to advance security across the tech industry, and is affectionately known as Google's "Security Princess." Outside of Google, she has lectured at Harvard, served as a consultant to the White House U.S. Digital Service, and consulted with entertainment writers to help them understand the world of tech and cybersecurity.

Members

Khanh Pham

Security researcher with 5+ years of experience in penetration testing, red teaming and security research | Winner of Pwn2Own 2021, 2022 and 2023

Andrew G.

Red teaming expert with 20+ years of experience | Ex-Google

Duc Nguyen

Red teamer with a proven track record in infiltrating top banks and tech firms | Bug bounty hunter winning maximum rewards from Apple, FIS Global, BestBuy

T.L.

Bug bounty hunter specializing in Oracle and Microsoft products

Kai Nguyen

Full-stack engineer with experience in building and securing highly scalable distributed systems

N. N.

Software engineer lead with 10+ years of experience in building large scale teams and software systems | Ex-Google

Nam Nham

Full-stack software and security engineer with 15+ years of experience

Gia Bui

Bug bounty hunter winning maximum rewards from Apple, Amazon, Tencent

N.H.

Malware lover, low level enthusiast, fan of all things security | Ex-Meta

Evelyn Nguyen

Operations lead with experience spanning from startups to multinational giants | Ex-Deloitte

Mai Nguyen

Operations lead with a goal to drive efficiency and excellence for impactful results.

Thanh Nguyen /yeuchimse

Top 10 of Bugcrowd's All Time Leaderboard

Quang Luong

Hacker who enjoys making systems go fast and may have crashed some parts of the Internet | Ex-Cloudflare

Trung Pham

Software developer, penetration tester, physics and electronics enthusiast

Diep Pham

Seasoned software engineer with over a decade of industry expertise, a proud Linux user and free open-source software advocate

Phuong Phan

Software engineer with a love for books and physics | Grad from Smith College

Manh Le

SRE with hands-on experience building and maintaining large-scale, highly available, high-performance distributed systems across both bare-metal and cloud environments

Lam Nguyen

Ex-Shopee with several CTF results and Algorithmic achievements

Hoang Nguyen

Low level developer, tinkerer and sometimes hacker