43. Solar Designer Alexander Peslyak (aka Solar Designer) is a Russian security expert know for his exploitation techniques and security audit tools. He is the founder of the Openwall Project, which has designed a security rich operating system for servers. ref: http://www.itsecurity.com/features/top-59-influencers-itsecurity-031407/ Solar Designer leads our ASP Technology team and helps to ensure that our servers, which run the latest Openwall version of Linux, stay secure.