Carl Hurd
CTO Co-founder at Starseer AI
Knoxville Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolCarl Hurd is a cybersecurity leader and CTO/co‑founder with eight years of deep hands‑on experience uncovering 0‑day vulnerabilities across embedded systems, industrial control devices, and networking hardware. He has led and mentored vulnerability research teams at Cisco Talos and Red Balloon Security, shipping tooling for fuzzing, emulation across architectures, IDS signatures, and proprietary ICS network analysis. His work blends low‑level reverse engineering with practical protections and measurable outcomes—most recently founding Starseer AI to bring interpretable AI to security measurement. Carl’s background in nuclear engineering and national lab research fuels a methodical approach to adversary thinking and safety‑critical systems. He’s as comfortable building emulators and protocol analyzers as he is balancing disclosure coordination and cross‑organization collaboration. Known for turning complex embedded problems into reproducible defenses, he favors pragmatic research that directly reduces operational risk.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Nuclear Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at The University of Tulsa
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Github Skills (126)
mysql-database10
vala10
frida10
instrumentation10
act10
concurrency10
onnx10
burn10
high-performance10
autodiff10
ndarray10
static-linking10
letsencrypt9
neurons9
minio9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Knight-Ops/reaction-role-discord-bot
Jan 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
Knight-Ops/procedural-npc
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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