James Rowley is a professional security researcher and engineer who loves that job so much he does it in most of his free time too. Aside from cracking electronic safe locks, he has years of experience working on embedded security, and helping build better products there; he has presented on those topics at Hardwear.io in the past. He has been hacking and making things since childhood, eventually making it a career. Born, raised, and still living in the Southwest US, he loves exploring and photographing that desert environ almost as much as tearing down products.