Summary
Bill Smartt is a Senior Detection Engineer with 14 years of hands-on software engineering and blue-team experience, currently focused on detection and EDR at CrowdStrike in San Francisco. He blends deep OS and kernel expertise with practical engineering—building cloud CI/CD systems, multi-platform kernel-mode endpoint solutions, and SIEM integrations—to ship production-grade security features. His background spans threat hunting, reverse engineering, exploit development and next-gen AV blocking, informed by standards like ATT&CK, STIX, and YARA. Comfortable across Windows, macOS, and Linux, he’s most fluent on x86/x64 and enjoys exploring niche architectures through CTFs. Known for translating adversary tradecraft into actionable Indicators of Attack, he pairs research curiosity with startup-hardened delivery.
14 years of coding experience
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of San Francisco