Ben Actis
Security Engineer at Straiker
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Actis is a seasoned offensive security engineer and founder with 12+ years of deep expertise in reverse engineering, mobile and IoT security, and red team operations. Based in San Francisco, he has built tooling and led large-scale assessments at Meta and Synack, contributed to a Pixel bootloader exploit (CVE-2016-8461), and runs a consultancy focused on exploitation research and bug bounties. His hands-on skill set spans low-level firmware and binary analysis (x86/ARM), mobile app instrumentation, network forensics, and vulnerability automation, complemented by experience developing scanners and fuzzers. Ben has a strong track record of mentorship and teaching—guest lecturing, training hundreds of employees on phishing and hiring practices, and advising legal teams as an expert witness—bringing both technical depth and operational leadership to complex security problems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Networking and Information Security, Bachelors Computer Networking and Information Security at Champlain CollegeJohns Hopkins University
Github Skills (22)
network-analysis10
hacking10
mobile-application10
pentesting10
android-application10
reverse-engineering10
static-analysis9
ios9
dynamic-analysis9
android9
owasp9
mobile-security9
security-testing9
checksum7
test-suite6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bactis/jhuGradSchoolCode
Jun 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 6 months
bactis/homebrew-dbxcli-omgihatesanta
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:79 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
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