Out of Office: Cybersecurity engineer fills his need for speed — and stress release — with RC car racingGeek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MOREDan Rico, a security engineer at Truveta, holds one of the RC cars that he builds and races in his free time. Growing up in New York, Rico remembers seeing the stress of engineering, the long nights and late-night troubleshooting calls. RC racing in 2025 is a serious sport. “There’s all these little knobs, essentially, in both security and the racing that need to constantly be tweaked and watched,” he said.