Aaron Markham is a technologist and entrepreneur with two decades of experience in distributed systems, AI/ML, and R&D program leadership. He has built distributed agent systems for content monitoring, real-time video analysis, and privacy-preserving infrastructure. He's currently building Frio (frio.help) and releasing the Spiritwriter agent governance framework as open source.

Aaron St. John is a professional software engineer who dabbles in electronic music and electronics design. When not at Toorcamp he can be found camping with the other nerds who do regional Burning Man production.

Aden Ip is a field scientist at the University of Washington who builds portable DNA sequencing platforms for real-time biodiversity monitoring. He has sequenced and identified species live on research vessels, coral reefs, and in rainforest canopies, and was an XPRIZE Rainforest award winner.

Rusty coder, fiddling with bits and electrons; creator and collector of AIS receivers.

I'm just zis guy, you know?

The beauty of jewelry lies in its ability to represent both personal symbolism and public image. I explore this duality in my work conceptually and literally, frequently including a secret in a piece only the wearer knows about, whether it is the ability to wear each piece in multiple configurations or an element hidden from viewers. My love for adorning the body leads me to create artfully designed jewelry influenced by mythology, pop culture and childhood memories.

My work explores the effects recent technological and scientific advancements have on contemporary identity. Basing my work on historical jewelry models, I cast and fabricate fine art jewelry from sterling silver, resin, and stones.

As a Certified Camp Metal Clay Instructor, I'm excited to share this fun media with Toorcamp participants.

Ben has been a backyard beekeeper for over 10 years and a generalist hacker from a very early age. Several moons ago my friend Thomas Hudson developed the hardware platform of the Bee Counter and we have sporadically nudged the project forward several times while we've kept bees in Portland Oregon. Ben sometimes consults in security and old school systems administration projects. But never mind that stuff, this is about beekeeping.

Bryce is a frequent toorcamp speaker, bird watcher, and CTF enthusiast.

CNLohr works as a computer engineer for a gaming company in Bellevue, WA, but, got his job from his youtube channel and involvement in open source projects on github involving unusual RF experiments, reverse engineering consumer hardware, and leveraging computing for solving all sorts of interesting problems.

A local technician for Rockisland ISP

Just trying to build a world we can all live in.

David M. N. Bryan is a seasoned hacker and security professional with over 25 years in the information security space. Currently at NetSPI, David specializes in penetration testing across a broad range of technologies, including mainframes, ATMs, storage systems, IoT devices, payment systems, and more.

David’s career spans both offensive and defensive security roles—from securing a top ten bank’s infrastructure to helping protect the DEF CON network. A long-time DEF CON goon, he’s contributed to the community for decades and brings deep expertise in areas such as embedded systems, network and wireless security, web application testing, and physical security.

He has shared his knowledge at major security conferences including Black Hat, DEF CON, ToorCon, LayerOne, ToorCamp, BSides, and AppSecUSA, among others. Most recently, David was part of the NetSPI Mainframe team that took first place in the Capture the Flag competition at the Share 2025 Mainframe Conference in Washington, D.C.

Dean Pierce is an offensive security researcher in Portland Oregon.

Dustin works on security at a token factory, where his threat model includes nation-states, his own employer's product, and possibly the future. He used to do disaster response for the United Nations, which he describes as "similar." He builds agents to do his job and would very much like to be replaced by them. He also rides an electric unicycle everywhere and would like you to know it's the most practical way to get around. He has the dental work to show for it.

Dylan McNamee is a retired (and occasionally re-enlisted) visiting professor of computer science at Reed College, emeritus of Galois, Inc., a software assurance research and development company, and avid coffee roaster, barista, retrocomputer enthusiast, Rust and Forth programmer and ham radio volunteer for emergency services (callsign N4LYD).

Patrick Kiley is a Security Consultant doing embedded security testing and has over 20 years of information security experience. Patrick has performed research in avionics security, vehicles, and even managed to brick his Tesla making it go faster. Patrick has a patent on a hardware security access tool and loves tearing things apart while figuring out how they work.

J. B. Crawford is a technology writer and DevOps consultant from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their interests include computer security, computer history, and the history of military communications. They are best known for Computers Are Bad (https://computer.rip) and for minimally provoked rambles. When not writing or speaking, they travel the southwest by road and explore the desert.

Seattle area installation-scale art nerd. Current jam is installing phone networks at off-grid events. Previously a heartbeat synchronized flame effect in a sculptural steel heart. Assorted computer stuff since the VIC-20 my family won at a rabbit show. Find me at enth dot bsky dot social

Jessa is a penetration tester by day and a creative by night. They have been in the cybersecurity field for 4 years and specialize in web application security and red teaming. When they aren't hacking, Jessa is experimenting with creative computing, learning about sound design, and making art.

Joe FitzPatrick (@securelyfitz) is a trainer and researcher at SecuringHardware.com with a personal mission to make all hardware devices at least a bit more secure. He builds tools like Tigard and Erebus, and teaches Applied Hardware Attacks trainings to help people break - and secure - their hardware devices. His actual superpower is the ability to instantly end awkward conversational pauses if you ask him about BSides Portland, the CTRL-H Hackerspace, or drone taco delivery at ToorCamp.

Vulnerability Researcher by day, hacker educator by night.

Karl Koscher is a technology and security generalist with an emphasis on wireless and embedded systems security. His pioneering automotive security dissertation work has earned both IEEE and USENIX Test of Time awards, as well as a 2021 Golden Goose Award. He actively holds an Amateur Extra license under the call sign KY0LO.

I'm a molecular biologist turned educator with pink hair and a penchant for tabletop rpgs. Find me looking really closely at fuzzy plants in the woods or buying dice.

Moonrock is a mostly-Seattle based collective and sometimes Burning Man camp. We build fire art and aggressively luxurious camp setups.

Naomi Brockwell
• President, Ludlow Institute (non-profit focused on helping people protect their privacy)
• Creator, NBTV (privacy education channel with 1M+ subscribers across platforms)
• Lead drafter of H.R. 8470, the Surveillance Accountability Act, introduced to the U.S. House on April 23, 2026. The bill closes the third-party doctrine loophole, bans warrantless ALPR, biometric, and location dragnets, voids contractual waivers of Fourth Amendment rights against the government, and creates a private right of action against federal agents who violate the Fourth Amendment.

PatAttack is a DJ!

Garagineer.

I build robot sailboats and the odd satellite.

Randy is a malware analyst, detection engineer and threat hunter who also loves to cook. Randy and his partner Lindsay have given a talk at PancakesCon on hunting malware C2 using domain fronting and baking Bavarian pretzels. He organizes DEATHCon and has taught many security workshops. Last ToorCamp, Randy taught a malware reverse engineering workshop and this year he's going all in on the cooking side with a pizza making workshop. Randy and Lindsay have made thousands of pizzas over the years and learned lots of ways that don't work along the way!

Trained as both an ecologist and a lawyer, Ryan Kelly has a broad set of interests, focused both on hard scientific data and policymakers’ use of those data. Ryan joins genetic and ecological research with real-world implementation in law and policy, particularly with respect to environmental monitoring and resource management. He is the Director of the eDNA Collaborative and Associate Director of the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs within the University of Washington’s College of the Environment.

SalusaSecondus has been working at the intersection of software development, computer security, and cryptography for the past 20 years. He focuses on the challenges of deployed cryptography at "cloud-scale" and starts really having fun once projects cross into trillions of objects and petabytes of data.

Beyond just the technical, he focuses on being a "cryptography translator" — someone who not only works with complex cryptographic concepts, but can help a wide variety of audiences understand them as well.

When not working, SalusaSecondus has way too many musical instruments to learn and too many stories to entertain people with. This will be his second ToorCamp.

Sebastian Noack is a software developer based in Detroit, MI who enjoys building hands-on projects ranging from home automation to electronics.

Crafting is woven through our family

Beerocrat, likes gay stuff.

Trevor has been a software developer for centuries now. In what free time he does possess, he works on janky art installations and half-finished hobby projects in the Seattle area.

Allen Hartle is Executive Director of StayAlert.org & 102.3 KIXP FM, and Founder of The Radio Experience which pioneered FM RDS metadata software.

Tycho Pendraig is an IT engineering professional working at KIXP FM, and Founder of Pendraig Concierge IT (Pendraig PNW).

Emily Astranova is a Security Consultant doing physical security testing, covert entry, network security, and social engineering. Emily has intentionally compromised US power grid systems, unintentionally compromised data centers, and has somehow managed to keep her record to only one run-in with the FBI. In her spare time, Emily volunteers as a software and cybersecurity mentor for high school students as a part of FIRST Robotics.

!/bin/bash explode is a hacker and artist-producer that rips it with guitars, vocals, and electronic bass elements. After releasing experimental electronic music, bash explode fell back to his metal roots and felt comfort in the discord of it. Majority of his songs are about rebellion, loss, and hacking corporations. bash explode mixes together several genres such as post-hardcore, cybergrind, nu-metal, dubstep, electronic bass music and punk.

Sailor, hacker, musician, rower

Heather Lawrence is a Senior Data Scientist with the Electricity ISAC and owner of Atropos Insights, specializing in building custom AI solutions and teaching ML with Python. Her expertise in AI security stems from over a decade of engineering experience, including incident response at Block, Inc., security data science at ThreatKey, and service as a U.S. Navy nuclear engineer. She earned her PhD at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs in Security in 2026 and her research centers on network security, adversarial machine learning, and the security of AI-orchestrated environments. She has presented at several venues, including the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security and the DEF CON AI Village, and volunteers with DEF CON.

m is a local seattle wizard, was involved in the founding of the /dev/hack hackerspace and an up-and-coming hyperpop dj

DJmattrix

n3wscott is a developer of infra, lover of hikes, and beerocrat.

noise is a DJ from Minneapolis, serving as resident at Ground Zero and as house DJ for Minnesota Roller Derby. He's been playing dark and hypnotic beats for audiences ranging from festivals to science-fiction conventions to fetish events and plenty in-between.

His team is responsible for the colorful lighting you find in the trees at night.

nyx is a Portland-based hacker, engineer, and self-described cyberpunk. As an unwilling participant in the late-capitalist, mass-surveillance dystopia, he is passionate about digital privacy, data self-custody, and running his own infra.

After being fired from his corporate day job for stealing from the office, he has so far managed to eke out a modest living as an independent embedded security researcher. His hobbies include poisoning everybody.

polack loves adventure and a good dusty hole in the ground

Louis Piano (Qweary) is a red teamer who happens to also be a locksmith for the US Department of the Army. He researches the collision of physical and digital security; demonstrating that the boundary between them was always imaginary. His hardware work includes a year-long reverse engineering project against institutional electronic locks, from NAND flash dumps to hand-patched TI assembly firmware hooks. On the cyber side, he builds multi-agent AI swarms with agentic capabilities for red team operations. Most recently, he deployed them at WRCCDC regionals, where Anthropic sponsored a blue team of 30-40 Claude instances defending against both his swarm and the human red team; this was a first-of-its-kind experiment to see the impact of augmented red team operations vs agentic blue team defense in a live competition. Based in Olympia, WA, he volunteers with OlyMega makerspace and believes persistence matters more than pedigree. This is his first conference talk.

Software engineer interested in security, privacy, and usability.

I am a Hacker DJ

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