Cale Smith is a nerd who loves both building but also breaking, so he can get better at building. He is passionate about understanding how anything and everything works, improving security along the way is just a bonus. Also, he is passionate about sharing his passion and created this course to pass along some of the more accessible techniques he has picked. His professional career originated exclusively as a builder, but has been focusing on the security and breaking side for the last 15 years. During that time he has dabbled in the web weenie life, cloud, binary, IoT and mobile most recently. Currently he manages a device oriented AppSec team at Amazon. While AFK he is probably riding a bike or climbing rocks.