Michael Bailey has always played with with security of things. In high school, he was in hot water for playing with computers just a little too hard, getting things from domain admin to front and back scans of Fairfax County's corporate credit card. Realizing a suspension won't look good on his record, he turned to programs at his school to learn more. He joined Marshall HS's cybersecurity club and ultimately became president. They competed in a variety of competitions, including CyberPatriot, MDC3, and PicoCTF. His coach ultimately hired him in his junior year of high school to work at a Defense firm called "Metier Defense Solutions" at the age of 17. The next year he worked at NanoTech Computers, an IT shop, as their sole technician, due to his mid-summer relocation to Alexandria, VA. Since then he's worked at The Crypsis Group, a Tysons DFIR company, for a year doing Ruby and AWS work to automate the collection and analysis process. He's currently a sophomore at George Mason University and is president of their CTF club.