Ryan Pentney was born in Montreal, Canada. He studied Computer Science at Concordia University and later went on to join Sourcefire in 2008 as part of the Vulnerability Research Team. His primary responsibilities involve vulnerability analysis/discovery, snort rule-writing and reverse-engineering. Most recently he has taught Sourcefire's Fundamentals of Exploit Development class and been heavily involved in the development of the Razorback Framework near-real-time detection project. His areas of interest include software exploitation, intrusion prevention research and formal languages.