Ben Gardiner
Summary
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RockstarBen Gardiner is a Senior Cybersecurity Research Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience in embedded systems, low-level software security, and applied mathematics. He combines a formal background in applied statistics and control systems with practical expertise in reverse engineering—contributing bug fixes and enhancements to the well-known radare2 framework—and a track record of securing automotive and industrial platforms. As founder of a security consultancy and a former principal engineer on an ethical hacking team, he blends research, training, and technical consulting to translate complex attack surfaces into actionable defenses. A public speaker and open-source contributor, he’s equally at home prototyping hardware interfaces as he is crafting attack trees and teaching others how systems fail. Notably, his career reflects deep cross-domain fluency: from multi-card data acquisition and signal-processing optimizations to modern platform security for vehicle ecosystems.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
c1710
radare210
reverse-engineering10
c1110
dis10
binarydiff10
disassembly10
command-line9
assembly8
x868
anti-malware8
malware8
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
radareorg/radare2
Nov 2016 - Dec 2018
UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 15 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the radare2 reverse engineering framework. Their work included addressing issues in the rabin2 tool, specifically related to section prefixes and double-freeing configurations. They also implemented new features like the dmS command for listing sections of mapped libraries and fixed a bswap issue. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the msp430 disassembler.
command-linereverse-engineeringunixradare2c
ainfosec/pretty_j1587
Aug 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 7 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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