Darren is a Digital Janitor and Staff Security Engineer at Google, who currently manages the Sydney based Infrastructure Protection team. Over the past 10 years at Google he has played many roles including tech lead for the Global Incident Response team, manager of the European detection team, software engineer and application tester. Prior to joining Google, he grew up on the mean streets of Auckland's North Shore, spent more time than is healthy on irc and staring at code, started some minor chaos, and paid his dues working in the NZ security consultancy salt mines.