Hi, I’m Vie/Jam. I’m an artist/CTF player/security researcher; alumni from the University of British Columbia, and member of the CTF teams Maple Bacon and MMM, and the CTF organizer team BBB. With team MMM I’m a black badge holder from DEFCON CTF 31, from our 4-streak victory of DEF CON CTF 30-33.

CTFS I CONTRIBUTE:

Organize(d):

• MapleCTF (2022-2023)
• HACKCELER8 (2023-2025)
• GoogleCTF (2023-2025)
• DEFCON CTF (2026-)

Contribute(d)

• CSAW CTF (2024)
• Hack the Box Cyber Apocalypse
• Plaid CTF
• pbctf/bwctf

JOBS

Information Security Engineer @ Google Red Team

• Things that I did:
  • Red Team
    • Red team exercises against Google infrastructure
    • Research and tool development
  • GoogleCTF
    • Challenge developer from 2023-2025
    • CTF co-lead 2025
  • Hackceler8
    • Lead art designer and developer
    • Commentator
      • Hackceler8 2023
      • Hackceler8 2024
      • Hackceler8 2025

CONFERENCES

Committee Member:

• 2024 Program Committee at USENIX WOOT

Speaker:

• Area41 2024: CTF to Career Pipeline
• Google init.g Las Vegas 2024
• Google init.g São Paulo 2024

OTHER INTERESTS

I touch grass so I have a plethora of other hobbies and interests. CTFs are just one facet of me. I’m a {snow/surf}boarder, traveller, writer, speed climber (Tsuro can confirm), hiker and, of course - artist.

Art

• My Substack/art blog, where I talk about art and art gallery visits