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I Recently Became a Sustaining Engineer at Canonical! 06 Jul 2019

A few months ago I made one of the largest decisions in my life - to leave my PhD position at the University of Canterbury and go out into the world and get a job.

I am wonderfully excited to announce that I am now a Sustaining Engineer at Canonical, the company which sponsors Ubuntu Linux.

I started on the 11th of March 2019, and the last four months I have settled into my role nicely.

New Beginnings 20 Nov 2018

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Welcome to my blog. This has been a long time coming, but as with everything in life, nothing actually gets accomplished until you sit down, free from distractions and get to work.

I have always been interested in security. Its one of the primary reasons why I did a Computer Science degree at University.

A few years ago, when I was a second year, I decided to get serious about security, and I brought a collection of books, since security is very much a self taught field.

I started marking my way through them, starting with Practical Malware Analysis, until University started demanding literally every minute of life dedicated to study in order to keep my grades up.