Allan Wirth - Research Assistant at Freelance

Allan Wirth

Research Assistant at Freelance

Chiyoda, Japan

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Allan Wirth is a security-focused software engineer and researcher with 14 years of experience spanning platform, application, and AI security across Amazon, Akamai, Woven by Toyota, and Mercari. He blends hands-on engineering—building automated chaos-testing systems and cloud-native security tools—with deep vulnerability research as a prolific bug bounty hunter invited to onsite hacking events. Allan contributes to notable open-source tooling for binary exploitation (including maintenance and modernization work on the widely used ROPgadget project), reflecting strong low-level and reverse-engineering skills. Now based in Chiyoda and pursuing doctoral research in AI security at Waseda, he combines academic rigor with practical industry impact.

15 years of coding experience

10 years of employment as a software developer

Doctor of Engineering, Computer Science - Information Security, Doctor of Engineering, Computer Science - Information Security at Waseda University

Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Boston University

Japanese, English

Github Skills (9)

c1710

exploit10

bins10

c1110

reverse-engineering9

c-programming9

linux9

roo8

ros8

Programming languages (16)

C#JavaC++CRustGoHTMLTypeScript

Github contributions (5)

JonathanSalwan/ROPgadget

Nov 2012 - Jun 2013

This tool lets you search your gadgets on your binaries to facilitate your ROP exploitation. ROPgadget supports ELF, PE and Mach-O format on x86, x64, ARM, ARM64, PowerPC, SPARC, MIPS, RISC-V 64, and RISC-V Compressed architectures.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:128 commits in 6 months

Contributions summary:Allan primarily contributed to the `ropgadget` repository by fixing bugs and refactoring code related to reverse engineering and binary exploitation tools. Their commits involved correcting off-by-one errors, refactoring code for improved structure, and modifying structures to maintain code consistency. Furthermore, the user switched the project to use `getopt_long_only` and condensed multiple files, indicating code modernization efforts.

armmipspowerpcrisc-vsparc

allanlw/ATS-guide

Nov 2013 - Jan 2016

Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 2 months

theorem-provingatscheatsheettheorem

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