Chris Gates has extensive experience in network and web application penetration testing, Red Teaming and Purple Teaming. Gates is currently learning to be a part-time fixer instead of full-time breaker. In the past he has spoken at the United States Military Academy, Black Hat, DefCon, Toorcon, Brucon, Troopers, SOURCE Boston, Derbycon, LasCon, HashDays, HackCon, Bsides ATL, IT Defense, OWASP AppSec DC and Devops Days. Gates is also a Co-Founder of NoVAHackers.