Chris Ross
Security Manager, Offensive Security (Red Team) at Zoom
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Ross is a Security Manager specializing in offensive security and Red Team operations with 11 years of hands-on experience across penetration testing, post-exploitation tooling, and macOS security research. Now leading Offensive Security at Zoom in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he blends people leadership with deep technical contribution to adversary simulation and C2 development. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core red-teaming frameworks such as Mythic and Empire—adding robust HTTP C2 proxy handling, improved error/decryption flows, and expanded enumeration and data-collection capabilities. Comfortable across PowerShell, C#, and Objective-C, he pursues practical research-driven defenses while staying curious about diverse technologies and attack surfaces. His combination of managerial experience, master’s-level education, and low-level platform work gives him a rare ability to translate advanced research into operational adversary emulation at scale.
11 years of coding experience
Master's Degree, Master's Degree at University of Maryland University CollegeBS, BS at Salisbury University - Perdue School of Business
Github Skills (24)
api-rest10
api-design10
wp-api10
restful-api10
http10
winapi10
pos10
exp10
go10
powershell10
rest-api10
ws-api10
json9
proxy9
proxy-server9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
EmpireProject/Empire
Sep 2015 - Jul 2019
Empire is a PowerShell and Python post-exploitation agent.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 569 commits, 280 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris appears to be a back-end developer, primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the post-exploitation agent. Their commits show modifications to the `Invoke-WinEnum` script, adding firewall rules enumeration and optimizing file searches. Additionally, the user contributed to agent features by merging remote-tracking branches, and added functions for the collection of data in a shell. This work suggests a focus on extending the capabilities of the post-exploitation agent.
empirepythonagentpowershellpost-exploitation
its-a-feature/Mythic
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
A collaborative, multi-platform, red teaming framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Chris focused on enhancing the HTTP C2 profile within the Mythic framework. Their contributions included adding new parameters like proxy settings, modifying configuration structs, and fixing related variable name conflicts. They also implemented changes to HTTP request functions, including handling of proxy authentication and improved error handling and decryption of responses. Furthermore, the user updated structs related to file uploads and downloads.
collaborativemulti-platformredisred-teaming
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