About

Hello, I'm Ashley Kang (she/her)! I use coding and knowledge sharing to explore questions about how to secure technologies and to make security more usable. These days, I'm working on a M.S. in Computer Science with a focus in Cybersecurity (graduating May 2022), scheming with Color Coded Collective, and learning about herbal medicine with Hood Herbalism.

My Summer 2020 security engineering internship has been canceled as a response to the pandemic, so I'd love to be in touch about new software and security engineering opportunities to work on usable security products!

Into: Security/privacy, accessibility, zines, diasporic foodways, student and community radio, mediocre rom coms

Elsewhere:

• Mailbox
• Resume
• GitHub
• LinkedIn

Credits: Designed and developed by yours truly, layout help from SuperHi, typeset with Fugaz One and Work Sans from Google Fonts, compressed with Squoosh and Optimizilla

Projects

Currently:

• Taking a Web Security course
• Building accessible webpages as the 30+ CSUF Extension and International Programs migrate to a new CMS; researching a design system for the MarCom team's workflows

Previously:

• Co-wrote and presented a research paper on IoT security for a Network Security course
• Built p5.js Showcase as a Google Summer of Code 2019 participant; released with p5.js version 1.0
• Co-organized a technology zine workshop with Shira Feldman and a digital security training with David Huerta as a NYU ITP Camp 2019 Instigator
• Wrote Python scripts for Turtle graphics, image processing, and Autodesk Maya
• Built the pages that highlight the purpose, work, and staff of CLEAN Carwash LA, Color Coded's first client and co-led a training that equipped them to update their website around their main fundraising event
• Built a form for recommending a business to be featured on Locales, Color Coded's first project
• Designed and facilitated after school photography programs for middle school students as well as a workshop with artist dana washington
• Co-designed and co-facilitated a #PrivacyIsAHumanRight workshop on digital security and privacy, the first in Color Coded's #CommunityTechnology Workshop series

Someday:

• Inbox zero

Etc.

On my radar:

• Intro Sec Con on April 25
• Collective Love On Ur Desktop (BUFU, China Residencies)
• Family Style zine/mutual aid for API in LA (Cynthia Yuan Cheng, Asian Americans for Housing and Environmental Justice)
• "Care-based approaches to remote work" (Una Lee, And Also Too)

See also: Rothko Toast, a blog I started in undergrad