After finishing his master's degree in computer science, Baris Saydag joined Turkish Airlines as a network planning engineer. Although devising reliable and secure networks that must scale internationally was a lot of fun, in 2004, he followed his lifetime dream and joined Microsoft. After a few interesting testing projects, Baris found his way to the security field in 2006 and has been contributing to Windows security ever since. During that time, he developed a C-language based fuzzing compiler, helped responding to numerous MSRC cases by finding variants and ensuring a thorough job has been done, trained new hire MS employees, suggested and led development of several security features in Windows.