My full résumé is available by request. Highlights:

Experience

  • Own security for a cloud environment handling more than a petabyte of sensitive health data
  • Lead a program applying frontier LLMs to secure the output of a ≈250-engineer organization, driving AI-powered discovery and remediation of 100+ high/critical severity vulnerabilities
  • Led red team engagements scoped across a major tech company’s infrastructure, products, and services
  • Discovered and exploited TEE vulnerabilities, secure boot and code signing bypasses, and URI-to-RCE chains
  • Developed novel vulnerabilities, exploits, and tooling, then partnered with blue teams to detect them
  • Completed a rotation on a malware reverse engineering team
  • Performed design reviews, cryptographic engineering, application security testing, penetration tests, and security consulting for internal teams and Fortune 500 clients
  • Assessed platforms including industrial control systems, cloud environments, embedded hardware, and web and native applications
  • Mentored early-career engineers on developing their skills and attacker mindset

Skills

  • AI/LLM tooling: building coding and vulnerability discovery workflows using the Claude Agent SDK
  • Python (primary); C, Java, C#, Bash, x86/ARM assembly, JavaScript, LaTeX
  • Embedded security engineering and exploitation, including secure boot, remote attestation, and TrustZone
  • Native exploitation techniques, modern exploit mitigations and bypasses, and reverse engineering (Ghidra/IDA)
  • Electrical engineering and hardware hacking, including PCB design and layout; licensed amateur radio operator

Achievements

  • Two-time DEF CON Black Badge holder: Spy vs Spy and Blacks in Cyber CTFs, with Team pTFS
  • 2nd place in the DEF CON Spy vs Spy CTF and 3rd place in Dungeons at DEF CON (Team pTFS)
  • 1st place, SANS Core NetWars CTF at RSA Conference (solo)
  • Completed the Microcorruption embedded security and reverse engineering CTF
  • Regular speaker at internal and external security and technology conferences
  • Former member of the DEF CON IoT Village Call for Papers review panel

Certifications & Training