Bradford Larsen
Principal Security Researcher at Truffle Security Co.
Groton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBradford Larsen is a Principal Security Researcher and pragmatic ML engineer with 16 years of experience building production-grade security and AI systems. He has led full-stack ML efforts at Praetorian, including curating a 20k hand-labeled secrets dataset, authoring the Nosey Parker secrets detector, and delivering 10–100x inference speedups through careful optimization and ONNX deployment. A security subject-matter expert, Bradford’s background spans static and binary analysis, symbolic execution, fuzzing, and large-scale appsec audits, with a track record of finding and fixing critical memory and logic bugs in major C++ codebases. He ships commercial software across Python, C/C++, Rust and many other languages, and combines deep research instincts from his PhD with pragmatic engineering—often focusing on the underserved operational challenges of deploying reliable, secure ML in the wild. Based in Groton, MA, he contributes to notable open-source tooling for secrets detection and brings a philosophy-informed, systems-level perspective to tradeoffs between model capability and risk.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Tufts UniversityM.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at University of New Hampshire
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Github Skills (13)
scanner10
devsecops10
rust10
security10
rule-engine9
command-line9
cli9
security-txt9
security-scan9
command-line-interface9
engine9
testing8
credentials7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
praetorian-inc/noseyparker
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Nosey Parker is a command-line tool that finds secrets and sensitive information in textual data and Git history.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Security Engineer
Backend Developer & Security EngineerContributions:12 releases, 59 reviews, 94 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Bradford primarily improved the `rules check` command within the Nosey Parker tool, adding functionality to treat warnings as errors and to check negative examples in the rules. They addressed clippy issues to improve code quality. Additionally, the user expanded the supported report formats to include JSON and JSONL, improving the tool's output flexibility. The user fixed a crash bug in the `report` feature and also added rule profiling features.
scannersecrets-detectionsecurity-toolsparkerrust
bradlarsen/cpython
Mar 2019 - Jan 2024
The Python programming language
Contributions:46 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 10 months
python-programmingprogramming-languagepythonpython-programming-language
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