Troy Hunt

Security Trainer, Web Developer, and Microsoft Regional Director in Gold Coast, Australia

Troy Hunt

Security Trainer, Web Developer, and Microsoft Regional Director in Gold Coast, Australia

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I'm Troy Hunt, an Australian Microsoft Regional Director and also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Developer Security. I don't work for Microsoft, but they're kind enough to recognise my community contributions by way of their award programs which I've been an awardee of since 2011. I get to interact with some fantastic people building their best products and then share what I know about creating secure applications for the web with the broader community.

I'm a Pluralsight author of many top-rating courses on web security and other technologies. There's no better way to get up to speed on a topic quickly than through professional training that you can take at your own pace. As both an author and a student, I have nothing but positive things to say about the breadth and quality of Pluralsight courses.

For fourteen years prior to going fully independent, I worked at Pfizer with the last seven years being responsible for application architecture in the Asia Pacific region. Time spent in a large corporate environment gave me huge exposure to all aspects of technology as well as the diverse cultures my role spanned. Many of the things I teach in post-corporate life are based on these experiences, particularly as a result of working with a large number of outsourcing vendors across the globe. For more corporatey background, there's always my LinkedIn profile.

One of the key projects I'm involved in today is Have I been pwned? (HIBP), a free service that aggregates data breaches and helps people establish if they've been impacted by malicious activity on the web. As well as being a useful service for the community, HIBP has given me an avenue to ship code that runs at scale on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, one of the best ways we have of standing up services on the web today.

Talk to me about: Cloud Computing, Security