Ryan Hendricks
Senior ThreatSpace Instructor, Google Cloud
With over 20 years of experience covering both the intelligence and cybersecurity fields, Mr. Hendricks worked for both private and public sector organizations. Mr. Hendricks maintains a solid background in delivering technical courses covering topics from hardware, software, networking, operating system management, to cybersecurity.
Mr. Hendricks entered the field serving his country in the U.S. Navy as a linguist performing signal and human intelligence operations. Afterwards, Mr. Hendricks moved into the technology sector working with the U.S. Department of Defense as a contractor delivering Army specific courses covering the entire stack from hardware to the security of all assets within the infrastructure. He then moved into the private sector leading the training team for Carbon Black where he built out the global training team supporting the development, delivery, logistics, and business growth of all technical courses within the product lines.
After the acquisition of Carbon Black into VMware, Mr. Hendricks then led the team of global technical content developers responsible for all curriculum courses for customer, partners, and employees over both the security products and the cloud management solutions. More recently, he transitioned into the team responsible for the development and delivery of the ThreatSpace engagements where his expertise in building out courses and content helped drive innovation for the platform.