Exciting news at 38North Security: We just welcomed a fresh crew of engineers to the team! Led by Larry Spector, the gang will focus on building a whole slew of security engineering capabilities.
Aside from stellar pedigrees and eye-popping achievements, the new guys also seem to be a pretty accomplished bunch, with some cool interests to boot. We’re nerding out over here, hence the Teen Vogue-ish questions they kindly answered!
Larry Spector is our new Senior Director of Cloud Security Engineering. He brings a lifetime of DevOps/DevSecOps experience to complement 38North’s advisory expertise. Besides having developed and overseen Verizon’s Managed Security Services suite, he also supported the self-driving tech teams at both Uber and Aurora.
Reinforcing the Bond villain vibes is the fact that Mr. Spector likes to drive fast cars on the raceway and strongly resembles an iconic Apple founder.
What’s your favorite drink?
I like beer, but my favorites are Barrel Aged Stouts. One in particular is Prairie BOMB! which is aged with coffee, cacao nibs, vanilla beans, and chili peppers.
Unrelated to work, when people come to you for help, what do they usually want help with?
Car stuff. Usually help choosing a new/used car or help with repairs. I had a lift in my garage when I lived in Virginia, and friends would bring their cars over to work on them.
What is the most impressive thing you know how to do?
Not sure how impressive this is, but I worked as a bicycle mechanic through school. Not only can I fix most bicycle issues, but I know how to build wheels from scratch. Hint- there’s math involved in calculating how long the spokes need to be, and if you get it wrong you have to start over…
David Eldridge swoops down with four years of service in the Air Force as an Information Technology Specialist in a communications squadron. Holding a master’s degree in cybersecurity, he excels in vulnerability and configuration management, and vulnerability remediation.
David owns his own photography business and has lived in Turkey for a few years.
What’s your favorite drink?
Old Fashioned
Unrelated to work, when people come to you for help, what do they usually want help with?
Photography
What job would you be terrible at?
Surgeon
Yosef Getachew is an experienced security and DevOps professional who specializes in deploying and migrating applications to secure cloud-native microservices. He has diverse experience in testing, development, containerization, and DevOps on enterprise applications.
Yosef has a passion for travel and playing the real football (soccer). He’s been to 10+ countries and enjoys learning about the cultural and lifestyle differences from one place to the other.
What’s your favorite drink?
Lemonade with Sprite
What game or movie universe would you like to live in?
A specific black mirror episode
What’s your favorite way to start the day?
Wake up late
What super useless thing are you good at?
Flight simulator and Call of Duty
What job would you be terrible at?
Anything to do with designing or drawing
Sean Tristan is a seasoned Security Engineer with an extensive background in designing and implementing security solutions for large-scale systems. His expertise extends to automating security tasks, building data pipelines, and API integrations for threat detections. Sean excels in cloud security, compliance, and safeguarding sensitive data, focusing on secure cloud infrastructures and leveraging his skills to protect businesses from cyber threats.
He’s also training for his first full marathon in May (good luck!) and enjoys hiking and photography, as well.
Unrelated to work, when people come to you for help, what do they usually want help with?
Family members see me as their own personal geek squad, so anything IT related
What would be your first question after being cryogenically frozen for 100 years?
Are we still on planet Earth?
What game or movie universe would you like to live in?
MCU so I can meet the Avengers and hopefully join the team
Mason Putney is diversely skilled, with abilities spanning Systems, Networking, Security, Operations & Development, and notable experience in scaling out AWS Snow Family infrastructure to me-central-1. He has been instrumental in leading and implementing infrastructure and configuration automation via CI/CD pipelines. He has proven experience optimizing for security, efficiency and scalability enhancements and experience with custom tooling using Python & Java.
Mason was born and raised in Colorado and a proud father and husband. When he’s not studying or tinkering in his home lab, you can find him downhill mountain biking, camping with family, or playing video games.
What super useless thing are you good at?
World of Warcraft & Rocket League, haha
What’s your favorite drink?
I know this is a boring answer, but water lol
What game or movie universe would you like to live in?
My own little corner of The Shire in Middle Earth
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