How Suz Hinton went from Dev to White Hat Hacker [Podcast #126]
How Suz Hinton went from Dev to White Hat Hacker [Podcast #126] κ΄λ ¨
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Suz Hinton. She's a software engineer, security researcher, and one of the first ever people to live-stream her coding on Twitch.
We talk about:
- How Suz started her career building browser ads in Adobe Flash, working around bandwidth early 2000s limitations.
- How she moved to the US from Melbourne to work at Zappos, and then Microsoft and Stripe.
- Her love of hardware and embedded development
- How she went back to school to study infosec, and launched a second career as a security researcher
- How she nearly burned out after 20 years in tech, and what she's doing to recover.
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's a 2015 song from an Australian musician.
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Links we talk about during our conversation:
- Suz's article on live coding on freeCodeCamp
- NoClip video game development documentaries
- The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop. Suz says it's "Dense and long, but the best narrative about how computing came to be."
- Space Rogue: How the Hackers Known as L0pht Changed the World by Cris Thomas. "A book about the original cult of the dead cow hacking group."