Hi! Since you’re choosing to be here, let me tell you a little bit about myself.

My name is Grant Banys, and I’m a security engineer, IT nerd, musician, and at times an amateur chef based out of Somerville, MA! I have a passion for tech and all the creative things you can do with it, and you’ll see exactly that in a number of my other passions/interests. I put this portfolio site together because after so much time tinkering with these various interests, I figured why not let the rest of you see what I get up to? It is designed and deployed by yours truly, and is deployed using wordpress.org through Hostinger (After… many failed attempts at building something less cool with HTML 4. Shout out to the brilliant Kyle Luburic for leading me down that dark path.)

My background consists firstly of my birth, which occurred in such a great city (Chicago, IL), that I just figured I would stay there all the way until I turned 18. Growing up as a northsider, I took solace from getting heckled by the rest of the city in the many Polish community areas and small business scattered around there – one of which is owned by my family!! (shameless plug)
Outside of just hanging out though, I spent the better part of my time in high school also working as a System Integrator for Nortek ELAN systems, which exposed me to the weird world of network engineering, system administration, and in an unintended way – operational security.

Once hanging around the city got a little boring though, I left town and studied IT, Cybersecurity, and Business Management at the wonderful Purdue University. This time in university opened my eyes to a variety of topics that drew me further down the IT + security rabbithole, with certain projects I’m particularly proud made public in the blog section of this site. While in University, I was also able to join up with the brilliant folks at (what was known then as) Aruba Threat Labs, which threw me into the world of Vulnerability Research, Responsible Disclosure, Bug Bounty, and all the other corporate buzzwords built around hackers breaking stuff for good B)

Following my graduation, I decided that one city wasn’t enough – and took my talents to Boston (or, a fairly close suburb) while continuing to work with the wonderful folks at HPE Aruba Networking. And now… you’re all caught up! Dig into my blogs to see what I’m up to now, or listen to my music to get to know me on an awkward, emotional level.

Also… if you’re still here and wondering why the hell my site logo looks like that. It’s just GB in the Dingbats font. (It would be wingdings but… microsoft……)