Photo from Falkirk High railway station
 
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Hey there!
I'm Harley Watson
(it/she)
 
 
 
 
 

I'm inspired by the intersection between computers and our physical world; often spending my evenings researching embedded devices 📱, home automation 🤖, payment technologies 💳, public transportation 🚃, and security UX 🔐

I've been a Software Engineer at Skyscanner since 2017, working on deployment orchestration, secure development lifecycle tooling, modernising our marketplace payment platform, and migrating legacy article content systems.

I served as Secretary for the Abertay Ethical Hacking Society during the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 academic terms, taking on responsibility for the society's technical infrastructure and assisting in Securi-Tay's organisation.

I'm a proud immigrant- I live in Glasgow after studying Ethical Hacking at Abertay University in Dundee; I grew up in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic; and am privileged to call Southern California's Orange County my birthplace.

📝 Writes

Date Title
30 Dec 2023 » commit signing in 2023 is kinda wack
21 Dec 2022 » Hey Harley, what's up with the wolf costume?
09 Feb 2014 » Plastic (In)Security
24 Apr 2011 » Espiaface, a Facebook social engineering attack

🎙️ Talks

Date Title
28 Feb 2020 » paper tickets > smartcards, probably.
07 Apr 2017 » one, two step.
18 Aug 2016 » what's in your pocket?
26 Feb 2016 » sorry, we're cash only.
29 Nov 2014 » there is no silver bullet

📓 Notes

🎟️ Conferences

I regularly attend (and sometimes speak at!) conferences related to information security.
Upcoming
Past
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👋 Contact

Callsigns 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 2M0LOB
🇺🇸 KO4PBT
Email [email protected]
iMessage [email protected]
IRC unlobito on Libera Chat
unlobito on hackint
unlobito on EntropyNet
Matrix @htw:canidae.systems
Peering AS211244 (iana)
AS4242421440 (dn42)