Ethan is a technologist with a wide ranging variety of interests and experience. He has worked in IT across the construction, financial, and agricultural industries. Starting out in a support role, he moved into systems administration and networking and then onward to infrastructure support and eventually into DevOps. His primary tools are Bash, Python, Vim, and a mechanical keyboard.

He has been playing with a bit of everything over the years and using it in various strange and terrible ways. He is passionate about security because he’s seen how bad things can get, especially for those without strong digital literacy and he doesn’t want anybody to have to deal with identity theft or worse.

He currently contracts through Lean Techniques for a large agricultural company in Des Moines.