Kill Chain: A Platform Cybersecurity Podcast
Jun 1, 2026 · 50 min · 10 segments
In 1994, Daragh Mahon won the green card lottery and moved from Ireland to Atlanta. His first American job was driving an eighteen-wheeler for Schneider. Thirty years later, he runs IT for Werner…
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Daragh MahonGuest
Terry ReinertHost
It's always interesting to know kind of the journey through and, and, like, what actually got people interested in it.
Like, I remember in, you know, the late '80s, um, you know, borrowing money from my brother to buy a PC, right? And I, and, and just because I wanted to learn how to program, and I wa- And I, you know, and there was, at that point there was even...
I don't even think there were college cla- like, real college classes in Ireland around that, the level of stuff I wanted to do.
I don't know if I ever paid him back that money, actually, now that I think about it.
And I, uh, so I always, I always had an interest in tech, um, just, just fascinated by what technology could do, but more fascinated by what it was gonna do.
You know, in college, when I left college, I don't have a college degree, so I left.
You know, when I got the, uh, the offer to apply for the Green Card, I was in college.
And when I got the Green Card, um, you know, I was, I was a year and a half into a four-year, um, polymer science and plastic engineering course, and it was either stay in Ireland, get, get my degree hopefully, or, and probably have no job after it because there wasn't a lot of work, uh, or leave and go to America and, and get a job.
And, and for Irish people of that age, like young people my age, America was the holy grail.
It's always interesting to know kind of the journey through and, and, like, what actually got people interested in it.
Like, I remember in, you know, the late '80s, um, you know, borrowing money from my brother to buy a PC, right? And I, and, and just because I wanted to learn how to program, and I wa- And I, you know, and there was, at that point there was even...
I don't even think there were college cla- like, real college classes in Ireland around that, the level of stuff I wanted to do.
I don't know if I ever paid him back that money, actually, now that I think about it.
And I, uh, so I always, I always had an interest in tech, um, just, just fascinated by what technology could do, but more fascinated by what it was gonna do.
You know, in college, when I left college, I don't have a college degree, so I left.
You know, when I got the, uh, the offer to apply for the Green Card, I was in college.
And when I got the Green Card, um, you know, I was, I was a year and a half into a four-year, um, polymer science and plastic engineering course, and it was either stay in Ireland, get, get my degree hopefully, or, and probably have no job after it because there wasn't a lot of work, uh, or leave and go to America and, and get a job.
And, and for Irish people of that age, like young people my age, America was the holy grail.
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