Alec Petridis
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Petridis is a security-focused engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in binary exploitation, browser sandbox and JIT compiler attacks, and offensive research. He helped qualify for DEF CON CTF finals and discovered CVE-2022-0185, a notable Linux kernel privilege escalation and container escape. His background spans applied research roles at UCSB SecLab, MIT CSAIL, and industry engagements including OtterSec and the 1D6 Foundation, where he built fuzzers and audited runtime transaction code. Alec enjoys reading source code, a habit that complements his vulnerability-hunting approach and enables deep, pragmatic understanding of complex systems. He combines hands-on exploit development with academic collaboration, bringing both competitive CTF rigor and research discipline to security problems.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (114)
rust10
android-studio10
linux9
ram9
compiler9
testing9
security9
volatility9
fuzzer9
malware9
security-vulnerability9
kernel9
rust-lang8
python8
incident-response8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
chop0/AlecOS
Apr 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
chop0/graal-bindgen
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
Safe Rust <---> GraalVM Polyglot bindings using procedural macros
Contributions:15 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
graalvmrustgraalpolyglotgraalvm-polyglot
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