About John Duksta

The 'about' page... where you put all the best of what you do in a few paragraphs. It's always a challenge to condense yourself into something that our media shortened attention spans can ingest, so here it goes.

Professionally, I'm a systems and security engineer and have been so for about 15 years now. I've worked for software and hardware companies, consulting firms, a large ISP, a university and a pure play managed security services company. While I have a very strong background in security, the bulk of what I do, day in and day out, is fitting round pegs into square holes, usually with liberal amounts of scotch tape and bailing wire. It's fun work and can be rather amusing. If you want to find out more about my professional life, you can check me out on LinkedIn.

In my free time, I run DC401, which is Rhode Island's Defcon Group. I'm also an advisory board member for AS220 Labs and a monitor and instructor in the AS220 FabLab. As part of DC401, I'm also helping to organize QuahogCon. When not doing those things, I like to tinker with electronic and embedded programming, specifically the Arduino platform.

When I can find the motivation, I like to get out on a bike and pedal around town. While that motivation ebbs and flows, I'm hoping to make it flow a little more often.