Chris Stone
Principal Research Scientist at BINARLY🔬
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolChris Stone is a Principal Research Scientist with 11 years of experience at the intersection of software security, reverse engineering, and program analysis. He holds a PhD in Computer Security for work on automated dynamic analysis of protocol implementations and has published on mobile and protocol security. In industry he has built binary analysis and vulnerability scanning tools, led advanced web scraping and anti-bot bypass efforts for Open Banking in LATAM, and now focuses on AI-driven code similarity and patch-detection models at Binarly. Comfortable moving between academic rigor and production systems, he also contributes to a Rust-based analysis engine and brings practical expertise in bypassing Akamai/Imperva/Cloudflare protections. Colleagues rely on him for deep reverse-engineering insight that turns complex threat research into deployable detection capabilities.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Security, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Security at University of Birmingham
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (51)
hostname10
monitoring9
networking9
bpf9
decompile9
linux9
wifi9
reverse-engineering8
state-machine8
large-language-models8
vulnerability8
burp7
user-friendly7
security7
angr6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisMcMStone/wifi-learner
Sep 2018 - Aug 2020
A tool to infer the security handshake state machine of a given WiFi router. Useful for vulnerability analysis
Contributions:47 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
securitystate-machinevulnerabilitywifi
ChrisMcMStone/Spinner
Dec 2017 - Feb 2019
A tool for automatic black-box detection of missing hostname verification, including for applications that use certificate pinning.
Contributions:36 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
certificate-pinninghostname
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