Liam Eastwood, Lead Security Researcher at Spearbit and Judge on Code4rena, sits down for an interview to discuss his rapid rise from a student to a top security researcher in just two years. He shares his experiences and provides insights on how to progress from an intermediate to an advanced level in the field of web3 security and smart contract auditing.
Links:
https://twitter.com/0xleastwood
https://leastwood.xyz
Interview with Patrick Collins - the GOAT of web3 education. Patrick talks about his background, how he got into web3, working at Chainlink and his switch to focus on Security.
Patrick is hiring auditors! Reach out to him below.
Links:
https://twitter.com/PatrickAlphaC
https://www.cyfrin.io/
We sit down with Pashov and discuss his decision to all in on web3 security as an independent security researcher. Pashov shares alpha on auditing, obtaining clients and building industry connections.
Links: https://twitter.com/pashovkrum
Interview with Dravee who is a top gas reporter on code4rena, taking first place for gas optimisations on the $1Million OpenSea contest in May and reaching top 20 on the leaderboard for 2022.
In this conversation we talk about Dravee’s background and how he learned smart contract auditing from scratch. We discuss how he was able to break through learning plateaus, his auditing strategy and his report automation setup.
Contact Dravee: https://twitter.com/BowTiedDravee
Links: https://github.com/x676f64/secureum-mind_map
An interview with Trust, ex-NSO Group hacker turned web3 bounty hunter and independent security researcher. In just under a year, Trust has rocketed to the top of the code4rena leaderboard, and has made waves on both code4rena and Immunefi.
In this conversation, we delve into Trust's background as a security researcher and exploit developer at NSO Group, and learn more about his decision to leave and pursue a career in web3 security. Trust discusses his work performing audits on code4rena, participating in bug bounties on Immunefi, and shares with us his methodology and mindset around bounty hunting and security research.
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