Summary
Ian Thieves is a Senior Security Analyst in British Columbia with nine years of hands-on experience securing networks, systems, and infrastructure across public and private sectors. Holding CISSP, GXPN, CRTP and CCNA certifications and a background in computer science, he blends offensive expertise (red teaming, exploit research) with defensive practice, including configuring an ESXi-based full-cycle network security sensor. Comfortable across Windows and Linux, Ian scripts in Bash, Perl, and Python to automate detection and remediation tasks and has practical networking know-how spanning DNS, VPNs, VLANs and firewalls. His career includes roles from IT coordination to security architecture, giving him a pragmatic view of operational constraints and secure design. Known as a sysadmin and infosec nerd on GitHub, he brings curiosity-driven projects and real-world attack/defense experience to bridge gaps between blue and red teams.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)
Associate's degree, Computer Science, Associate's degree, Computer Science at Langara College