Brian Carrier
Chief Executive Officer at Sleuth Kit Labs
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Carrier is a seasoned digital forensics leader and CEO with 17 years of experience building DFIR products and open-source tooling from lab to enterprise. He leads Sleuth Kit Labs and Cyber Triage, having previously headed digital forensics and R&D at Basis Technology where he combined product, architecture, and business development responsibilities. A Ph.D. computer scientist from Purdue and longtime contributor to The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy, he brings deep file-system and back-end expertise (HFS/NTFS, Java/Python) to make investigations more reliable and scalable. Brian’s work bridges rigorous academic research in formal methods with practical incident response tools used by law enforcement, military, and corporate teams. Based in Somerville, MA, he also founded and chairs OSDFCon, cultivating the open-source DFIR community and training the next generation of examiners.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Purdue UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at Northeastern University
Github Skills (14)
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c-language10
cprogramming-language10
computer-forensics10
ntfs10
java10
operating-system9
develop9
sqlite8
python7
data-structure5
data-structures5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sleuthkit/sleuthkit
Sep 2008 - Dec 2022
The Sleuth Kit® (TSK) is a library and collection of command line digital forensics tools that allow you to investigate volume and file system data. The library can be incorporated into larger digital forensics tools and the command line tools can be directly used to find evidence.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 51 reviews, 2236 commits in 14 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brian made several changes related to improving the existing codebase, specifically the handling of HFS and NTFS file systems. The commits focus on addressing bugs, improving code readability through indentation, and addressing build warnings related to specific compilers. Their work involved core file system logic, indicating expertise in file system internals and contributing to the stability of the project.
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sleuthkit/autopsy
Sep 2008 - Jan 2023
Autopsy® is a digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit® and other digital forensics tools. It can be used by law enforcement, military, and corporate examiners to investigate what happened on a computer. You can even use it to recover photos from your camera's memory card.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 53 reviews, 1347 commits in 14 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian appears to be working on the back-end of the Autopsy digital forensics platform, with commits focused on improving and maintaining the functionality of the recent activity plugin and the central repository. Their contributions include adding features, addressing code-related issues, and improving the usability of the program. They have worked on making improvements to the project in Java and Python.
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