Aaron Mcdaniel
Student Security Analyst at High Performance Computing Collaboratory at MSU
Starkville, Mississippi, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Mcdaniel is a cybersecurity professional and student analyst with over a decade of hands-on technical experience, currently supporting threat detection and incident response for high-performance computing at Mississippi State University. He pairs formal study in cybersecurity and networking with practical SIEM work—monitoring Elastic logs, documenting findings, and aiding remediation across complex systems. Aaron has also interned in state IT operations, gaining real-world NOC ticketing, monitoring, and customer-facing skills under seasoned mentors. Beyond ops, he contributes to notable open-source tooling: improvements to the radare2 reverse-engineering framework show comfort with low-level code, command-line interfaces, and debugging internals. His background blends operational reliability, applied development, and fast learning—illustrated by rapid certifications and quick promotions in prior roles. Based in Starkville, he brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to securing infrastructure and improving tooling.
12 years of coding experience
Associate of Applied Science Cybersecurity Technology, Associate of Applied Science Cybersecurity Technology at Hinds Community CollegeBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Cybersecurity, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Cybersecurity at Mississippi State University
Github Skills (8)
c1710
radare210
reverse-engineering10
c1110
command-line10
binarydiff9
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
radareorg/radare2
May 2018 - Oct 2018
UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 41 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the `radare2` codebase by improving the `dietline` library, a component for command-line input handling. Their work involved cleaning up unused code, enhancing word boundary behavior for better user experience, and fixing a regression issue. Furthermore, they added and refined logging configurations and updated debug map functionalities, demonstrating experience with the core framework's internals.
unixbinary-analysissecurityradare2forensics
mcd1992/radare2
May 2018 - May 2021
unix-like reverse engineering framework and commandline tools security
Contributions:52 pushes, 8 branches, 1 comment in 3 years
unixsecurity-toolssecurityunix-likeengineering
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