Troy Hunt
Founder And CEO at Pluralsight
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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RockstarTroy Hunt is a security-focused entrepreneur and educator with 13 years' experience building large-scale, privacy-sensitive web services from the Gold Coast of Australia. As founder and CEO of Have I Been Pwned, he created a widely used breach aggregation service that helps tens of millions of people and is relied on by corporations, governments and law enforcement. A Microsoft Regional Director and long-time Pluralsight author, he blends public speaking, hands-on engineering and training to help organisations build more secure software. He also partners with Report URI and runs Superlative Enterprises, maintaining an independent practice that supports his speaking, consulting and product work. Notably, his projects combine practical threat mitigation with a strong emphasis on transparent, data-driven public service.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
http10
ghost10
security10
asp-net10
passwords10
passphrase10
rgb10
msbuild9
google-analytics9
svn9
teamcity9
asp-net-mvc9
sharepoint9
xss9
cookie9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
troyhunt/Coinhive
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
A little website to serve a modified JavaScript file on requests to coinhive.com
Contributions:1 review, 14 commits, 7 PRs in 7 months
javascript
troyhunt/password-purgatory
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Deliberately making password creation a true hell
Contributions:33 commits, 9 PRs, 25 pushes in 9 months
passwordspassword-generatorpassword-managerpasswordpassphrase
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