内容来源：https://www.geekwire.com/2025/out-of-office-cybersecurity-engineer-fills-his-need-for-speed-and-stress-release-with-rc-car-racing/

内容总结：

【科技人的业余激情】西雅图医疗数据公司Truveta高级安全工程师丹·里科（Dan Rico）在工作之外，将满腔热忱倾注于遥控赛车的组装与竞速。这位负责保护患者数据安全的工程师坦言，这份爱好既是对父亲工匠精神的传承，也是对抗工作压力的独特方式。

从13岁在纽约模型店打工，到如今在华盛顿州斯诺霍米什的赛车场上驰骋，里科驾驶的1/10和1/8比例遥控车时速可达96公里。他不仅参与室内外赛事，更协助设计赛道，在机械调校与故障排除中磨砺心性。

值得一提的是，里科从遥控赛车中悟出与网络安全工作的共通哲学：两者都需要持续微调系统参数，时刻保持警惕。更令他享受的是赛车社区的互助氛围——无论是为陌生车手担任维修员，还是通过"像女孩一样驾驶"项目指导新人，这种共享知识的理念与他从事网络安全行业时"持续 mentoring"的职业承诺不谋而合。

如今，遥控赛车不仅是里科平衡生活的支点，更成为反哺其专业工作的思维训练场。正如他所言："赛场上保持冷静、高效解决问题的能力，恰恰是应急响应工作最需要的素质。"

中文翻译：

《职场之外》是GeekWire新推出的系列专栏，聚焦西雅图科技圈成员在工作之外全心投入的爱好与副业。

本期人物：丹·里科
本职工作：西雅图健康数据公司Truveta的高级安全工程师，负责领导事件响应与威胁管理团队，构建防护系统以保障患者数据安全，抵御网络攻击。
职场外热情：组装并竞速遥控车。

在纽约长大的里科认为，自己的科技职业道路与如今占据全部业余时间的爱好，都深受父亲影响。他的父亲是微软认证技术员——在1990年代个人电脑与网络技术爆发的IT界，这堪称金字招牌。里科童年时目睹了工程师工作的压力：彻夜加班、深夜故障排查电话不断。他也记得父亲需要在周末彻底脱离工作。"他选择了模型飞机，并从零开始亲手组装"，里科这样描述父亲，"这让我着迷。我看着他如何真正将工作隔绝在外，却又发现两者存在明显共性——同样需要工程设计，同样要经历繁琐流程，同样耗费大量时间。"

约十三岁时，里科在纽约一家模型店打工，从此对遥控飞机、直升机与汽车的热爱一发不可收拾。青少年时期，他的房间里堆满了这些玩具。五年前移居西雅图加入Truveta后，他重拾了大学期间中断的爱好。彼时他已承受了十五年高压工作，亟需寻找宣泄途径。"我热爱工程学，但你需要某种方式将生活真正区隔开来"他说道。

2025年的遥控车竞速已是项严肃运动，早已告别靠无线电天线连接的电池车时代。里科驾驶1/10和1/8比例的燃油与电动纳斯卡赛车模型，时速可达96公里。他常驻华盛顿州斯诺霍米什县的"终极遥控车公园"，在各种赛道上参加室内外比赛，甚至参与赛道设计与建造。

作为长期自组装电脑的硬核玩家，里科钟情于遥控车的实体操控感——无论人车合一还是失控瞬间，都让他沉醉于争分夺秒排除故障的刺激感。"比赛失利本质上反映的是我的临场表现"，里科说，"这是衡量我保持冷静与高效能力的绝佳方式，许多从竞速中学到的经验都能运用于事件响应。"

最令他乐在其中的是：里科并不执着于夺冠或站上领奖台。他享受与其他车手相遇、为他们担任"维修 crew"的乐趣不亚于比赛本身。"入圈以来我已为超过15位素未谋面的人提供过维修支持，每次都能立即结交新朋友"。他还通过"巾帼车手"项目帮助新人入门与技术提升，这种社区凝聚力与支持氛围恰似网络安全工作的缩影。"成为网络安全专业人士时的承诺之一就是持续指导他人、保持技术前沿性并同步最新动态，这与遥控车圈的理念高度契合。"

反馈至工作的启示：这项爱好不仅帮助里科缓解工作压力，更磨炼了他的专业技能。他认为保持赛车完美运行与防范网络攻击存在明显共性："安全防护和赛车调校都有无数需要持续微调与监控的细节，就像是在进行没有真实事件发生的事件响应——只不过对象是我的赛车。"

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英文来源：

Out of Office is a new GeekWire series spotlighting members of the Seattle tech community about a passion or hobby they pursue outside of work.
Name: Dan Rico.
Day job: Senior security engineer at Truveta, the Seattle-area health data company, where Rico helps run the Incident Response and Threat Management team, building detections and securing personal patient data against cyberattacks.
Out-of-office passion: Building and racing remote-control cars.
Growing up in New York, Rico credits his father with the career path he took in tech and with the hobby that now consumes his free time.
Rico’s dad was a Microsoft Certified technician, which was a big deal in the IT world in the 1990s during the explosive growth of PCs and networking. Growing up in New York, Rico remembers seeing the stress of engineering, the long nights and late-night troubleshooting calls. And he remembers his dad’s need to disconnect on weekends.
“He chose model airplanes and building them from scratch,” Rico said of his father. “It fascinated me, because I saw how he was able to truly separate himself from work, yet there was a clear parallel. It’s still engineering, there’s still design, there’s still the tedious processes, and it’s very time consuming.”
Rico took a job at a hobby shop in New York City around age 13, and his love for RC planes, helicopters and cars took off. As a teenager, he had a room full of the toys.
When he moved to the Seattle area five years ago to work at Truveta, he reignited a hobby that he’d lost touch with during college and after. He was at the 15-year mark in a career that comes with its share of stresses, and he was looking for an escape.
“I love engineering, but you need something to really separate your life and break it up,” he said.
RC racing in 2025 is a serious sport. It’s not like the days of battery-operated cars and controllers with a radio antenna that provided connectivity. Rico races 1/10 and 1/8 scale stock cars, both nitro and electric-powered, that can hit speeds of 60 mph.
He predominantly hangs out at Die Hard RC Park in Snohomish, Wash., where he takes part in indoor and outdoor races on a variety of tracks. He’s even gotten into helping design and build tracks.
An avid PC gamer who has always built his own computers, Rico appreciates the physicality of RC cars and feeling a connection to the machine — or not feeling it. He thrives on the frustration and the time crunch of fixing a problem.
“At the end of the day, if the race went poorly it’s a reflection of how I performed,” Rico said. “It’s a great way to [measure] how calm I’m being, how effective I can be. A lot of those things that I learn in racing I’m able to bring back into incident response.”
Most rewarding aspect of this pursuit: Rico isn’t obsessed with winning or making it onto the podium after a race. There’s no ego involved, and he gets as much enjoyment out of meeting other racers and helping on their “pit crew” as he does racing himself.
“Since I joined I have pitted for over 15 people who I never met before,” he said. “Every time that happened it’s instantly a new friend, a new connection.”
He also enjoys helping others get into racing or improve their technique through the Drive Like a Girl program. That sense of community and supportive atmosphere is reminiscent of his cybersecurity work.
“One of the things that I basically agreed to do when becoming a professional in cyber is constantly mentor, constantly stay on top of things and keep others apprised of updates,” Rico said. “It’s very similar to the RC side.”
The lessons he brings back to work: Rico’s hobby not only helps him disconnect from the stress of security work, but also sharpens his professional skills. He sees a clear parallel between keeping a race car running perfectly and preventing a cyberattack.
“There’s all these little knobs, essentially, in both security and the racing that need to constantly be tweaked and watched,” he said. “It’s almost like incident response without actually responding to incidents. It’s just my car.”
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