The Company
Kody K.
Founder
I'm Kody Kinzie, ethical hacker and educator behind the Null Byte channel and more! I created Retia to bring together friends who love teaching and creating educational projects for beginners. You can find my personal work at www.hack.gay.
Retia started as my video production team, but quickly grew to produce live workshops and classes at conferences worldwide. To support our teaching, we design and produce our own educational hardware, much of which we've open-sourced!
The Team
Retia is a team of ethical hackers, media producers, and engineers who love teaching beginners about ethical hacking through our workshops and media.
Our goal is to make it easier for anyone to get started with cybersecurity and ethical hacking, through exciting and relevant videos, educational events, and in-person training courses showcasing an inclusive community of hackers, makers, and engineers.
Video Production & Events
Our team makes regular appearances at hackerspaces and hacker conferences to speak with key players, capture interviews of rising talent, learn from our peers in the hacker community, and teach workshops to beginners.
We've regularly covered Hackaday Supercon, Defcon, Hackers On Planet Earth, Chaos Communication Congress, RSAC, Blackhat, Toorcamp, SCaLE, and LayerOne. You may have met us there, or seen one of our talks!
Cyber Camps & Community Events
We work with academic organizations and nonprofits to host events, teach in-person classes, and run week-long cyber camps for kids and adults.
We've taught our third annual CyberCat Academy in partnership with the state of Montana and Code Girls United, teaching soldering, ethical hacking, and more!
Using grant funding, we've created custom hardware designs like our Meow Mixer soldering kit and Nibble LoRa nodes for teaching beginners about electronics.
