me

My name is George Louthan; maker, hacker, computer geek.

I recently started working on product security at the Rivian-VW joint venture with a focus in identity. Previously, I led an awesome team of cloud security engineers at AppDynamics, part of Cisco. Before that, I worked in high performance computing, helping found Tulsa's (sadly now-defunct) Tandy Supercomputing Center, where I served as the center director, later serving as Associate Director for Research Computing Strategy at the University of Oklahoma’s supercomputing center, OSCER.

Since 2017 I’ve co-led the Black Team for the Southwest Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (SWCCDC), where we design, deploy, and support all aspects of IT operations for the competition. I strongly believe that CCDC is the best possible experience a college student can get to prepare them for a career in IT ops or security.

I also help with Queercon, the community sub-conference at DEF CON, where I work on electronic badges, mainly on embedded software and logistics. In the indie electronic badge community, I’m known as the guy who gets added on social media by overseas vendors’ sales reps.

In grad school I moonlit hosting karaoke at an arts bar. These days I moonlight writing software for embedded electronics. One of those involves late nights, confused wailing, and no pay. The other, of course, is karaoke.

I live in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where I graduated from The University of Tulsa (TU) and never wound up leaving. In 2014 I was honored by the Tulsa Business and Legal News as one of their “Tulsa 40” young local leaders. In 2017 I had the awesome experience of giving a TEDx talk on supercomputing at Tulsa Community College, and in 2011 I had a lot of fun giving a similar talk (at a local Ignite event) about security, called “How your computer can ruin your life and literally kill you dead.”

I serve on the Board of Directors for Tulsa's Friends of Starlight Concerts, which presents a free ourdoor summer concert series by one of the few remaining professional concert bands in the United States; and on the Board of Directors for the TALON Cyber League, which co-presents the Southwest Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. I also serve on the advisory board for TU's Tandy School of Computer Science.