Max David [email protected] github.com/maxdavid EDUCATION B.S. in Computer Science The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA Graduation in 2015 Expected cum. GPA 3.5 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Vulnerability Research Intern FireEye, Summer 2014 Internship at FireEye’s Milpitas office implementing a new intrusion prevention system for the company’s flagship MVX product. • Writing IPS signatures in Snort to detect and alert on known server attacks. • Analyzing CVEs, Metasploit modules, and other known exploits to develop accurate signatures. Security Research Assistant Dartmouth, Summer 2013 Internship under Sergey Bratus at the Institute for Security, Technology, and Society (ISTS). • Developed testing scripts for assessing the use of packet mangling and network interference to fingerprint VPN connections for a Cyber Fast Track project. • Rewrote device specific connection code for Travis Goodspeed’s Facedancer USB board. Secure Information Systems Mentoring And Training (SISMAT) Dartmouth, Spring 2013 Attended lectures and workshops by various faculty in an intensive learning environment. Topics included memory/buffer corruption, analytical binary debugging, effective shellcode techniques, web application penetration, application assessment, and source code auditing. Manager at Scientific Lab for Advanced Computing Research (SLACR) Evergreen, 2012–2013 Also known as the OSLab, the SLACR is a student space focused on encouraging senior CS students to collaborate with faculty and students from neighboring departments. Created a visualization tool in Ruby to determine quality of multiple sequence alignments between genes in cooperation with Evergreen’s evolutionary biology faculty. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 8th place (out of 15) at the CSAW CTF Finals at NYU Poly with team GNU-E-Ducks November 2014 Co-Founder of Evergreen’s Hacker Club (hackevergreen.org) and CTF team GNU-E-Ducks 2013–Ongoing Numerous Computer Security Capture The Flag Competitions (CTFs) 2013–Ongoing Microcorruption by Square & Matasano – iCTF by UCSB – CSAW by NYU Poly PlaidCTF by CMU – Hack.lu – NotSoSecure – Zeromutarts Pacific Rim regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) Team Co-captain 2014 - 2nd place (out of 12) 2013 - 3rd place 2012 - 6th place PRINCIPAL SKILLS GNU/Linux Languages Tools Adept at advanced Linux command-line tools and system administration Python, C/C++, bash, ASM, Java, Javascript, Haskell, HTML/CSS, LATEX Git, Vim, Metasploit, gdb, IDA, wireshark/tshark, snort, Flask, jQuery