Kevin Riggle

Kevin Riggle

Cybersecurity consultant. Principal at Complex Systems Group, LLC.

Appears in 9 Episodes

The Reporter Called Her Christmas Day - Melanie Ensign - Bug Bounty & Incident Management

Kevin Riggle interviews Melanie Ensign (Discernible Inc.), former Global Head of Security, Privacy, & Engineering Communications for Uber, about building good bug boun...

The Future Is (Literally!) Bright - How Infrastructure Works, by Deb Chachra - Climate, Energy, & the Future

Kevin Riggle interviews Deb Chachra, professor of engineering at Olin College and author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS about climate change, the housing crisis, the gree...

Was Akamai the Velvet Underground of SRE? - Abhijit Mehta - Bonus

Kevin Riggle interviews Abhijit Mehta about Akamai and its role in the history and development of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).  Bonus episode outtake from https...

He Broke Turkish Twitter - Abhijit Mehta

Kevin Riggle interviews Abhijit Mehta, who tells how one tiny dot made almost made a massive difference to Twitter's Turkish ad revenue.Abhijit's Twitter: https://twit...

She Missed the Overnight Push! - Julia Lunetta

Kevin Riggle interviews Julia Lunetta, who tells us how an ostensibly minor change caused her employer, a financial institution (Upromise Investments), to miss its ove...

She Made Dropbox Give the Internet Free Watermelon? - Kate Rudolph

Kevin Riggle interviews Kate Rudolph, who tells how a rolled back commit on her intern project resulted in Dropbox, her employer, offering free watermelon to the entir...

He Locked Players Out On Launch Day - Zachery Johnson

Kevin Riggle interviews Zachery Johnson, who tells how an innocent command doomed the database servers and locked players out of Diablo II: Resurrected on Day 2 of lau...

Twelve Lines of Code Took Down the Whole Company - Patrick O'Doherty

Kevin Riggle interviews Patrick O'Doherty, who tells how a seemingly-simple configuration change one Friday morning led to a massive outage.Patrick's web site: https:/...

He Broke (part of) The Internet - Willie Williams

Kevin Riggle interviews Willie Williams, who tells the story of the time he accidentally took down a major site while an intern at Akamai.Willie's Twitter: https://twi...

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