Avery Tan

About Me

Avery Tan is Cybersecurity Risk and Assurance subject matter expert with a passion for technology and extensive hands-on experience in a multitude of technical and non-technical domains. He has experience working with both large corporations and small organizations encompassing a multitude of inter-disciplinary roles and job duties ranging from software development, security operations, risk management, threat intelligence, offensive security, DevSecOps, cloud security, and more.

Example Talk

An example talk using Hugo Blox Builder's Markdown slides feature.

Jun 1, 2030

Defcon 33 Afterthoughts

My thoughts on this year's annual hacker summer camp, including this year's pervailing theme, loot, and happenings in the threat landscape.

Sep 4, 2025

Advantage Blackjack: Analysis with Simulation and Reinforcement Learning Methods

Blackjack is a game commonly found in casinos and card rooms globally. With the adventures of the MIT Blackjack Club in the late 80s, advantage blackjack has taken the world by storm. In this project, we attempt to analyze and verify statiscally the edge traditional advantage play has on the outcome of games given specific conventional rules by deploying Monte Carlo methods. Furthermore, we intend to use Reinforcement Learning Methods (Sarsa, Sarsa-Q, etc...) in order to discover if any improvements or optimal policies given variations in rules and play environment (deck penetration, ability to surrender, double after split, etc...).

Jul 21, 2025