Meet Our Authors

Katya is a self-taught cybersecurity expert from Ukraine, now based in Krakow, Poland. She started exploring hacking and the digital world at 14, and today she is proficient in five programming languages. Her beat is phone tracking and monitoring apps, spyware detection, and online privacy.

Every verdict she publishes rests on her own hands-on testing, which is what keeps her reviews unbiased. She also writes practical guidance that helps parents protect their children’s digital lives.

Katrina is a technology writer from Jaynesfield, Wisconsin with more than a decade of experience. Today she leads our PC optimization coverage, testing cleaners and tune-up suites in real before-and-after scenarios; she built her reputation reviewing phone data recovery tools, and that byline still stands on many of our recovery guides.

As a mother, she cares about the balance between freedom and protection for kids online. She advocates for online safety and digital literacy beyond her writing, speaking at conferences and working with schools and parent groups.

Marcus spent eight years as a network administrator for a managed-services firm before writing full time. His reviews are benchmark-driven: multi-day speed trials against a no-VPN baseline, DNS, IPv6, and WebRTC leak tests, kill-switch drills, and streaming checks.

He runs a pfSense home lab in Austin, Texas, and takes every VPN he reviews on the road; a privacy claim is not real until it has survived hotel Wi-Fi.

David spent a decade in IT support, the last four years of it in a data-recovery lab imaging failing drives. He tests recovery software against deliberately failed media, from deleted partitions to formatted SD cards and corrupted phone storage, and measures what each tool actually gets back.

Based in Manchester, UK, he applies one rule to backup software: a backup you have never restored is a rumor.

Sarah is a former middle-school teacher and school technology coordinator with twelve years in classrooms, now based in Portland, Oregon. She tests every parental-control app on her own family’s devices, with her kids’ knowledge.

A mother of two, she weighs a child’s privacy as heavily as a parent’s controls, and runs digital-safety workshops for parent groups.