James Gallagher

I grew up in the (TRS-)80's playing and creating text based adventure games on monochrome displays. My first infosec experience was booting a hacker from a dial-up BBS at around 12 years old. I forsook technology for a while and became a professional violinist, but in 2006 I decided to launch full career in computers because the money is better! I've been hacking professionally since 2015 and love riding the waves of constant change. I have done well for myself by not expecting others to teach me and just creating my own test environments from scratch. Now I have a successful role at a pentesting firm where I pentest Big 5 clients and play electric violin when I feel like it.