Colton Gabertan
Technical Analyst II at HCA Healthcare
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColton Gabertan is a Technical Analyst II with six years of hands-on experience bridging software engineering and information security, currently based in Las Vegas. He combines systems administration, CI/CD automation (Ansible, Terraform, GitLab) and scripting (Python, PowerShell) with practical red-team tooling and malware reverse engineering experience from Mandiant. Colton contributed to the widely used capa project by enhancing its Ghidra backend to extract OS/architecture and rich file/function features, and implemented CI and unit tests to make detections more reliable. He has taught and managed cybersecurity training programs, helping cohorts earn certifications and operationalize vulnerability remediation for SMBs. Holding a BS in Computer Science applied to Information Systems and Security+ and CEH certifications, he focuses on enabling growth while reducing cyber risk through tailored, scalable solutions. Outside of work he writes technical articles and maintains an InfoSec/software engineering presence on GitHub and his personal site.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science applied to Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science applied to Information Systems at University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Github Skills (14)
ghidra10
malware10
reverse-engineering10
python10
binarydiff10
anti-malware10
file-parser9
file-format9
parsing9
file-parsing9
elf8
pe-file8
testing8
pem8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mandiant/capa
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
The FLARE team's open-source tool to identify capabilities in executable files.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 reviews, 31 PRs, 172 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Colton focused on enhancing the Ghidra backend for the capa tool. Their work included implementing OS and architecture extraction, specifically for PE and ELF files. The user also developed file and function feature extraction capabilities, including imports, exports, section names, strings, and function names, contributing significantly to capa's functionality. Furthermore, the user was responsible for writing unit tests and setting up the Ghidra CI/CD configuration.
flarereverse-engineeringcapabilitiesexecutableidentify
colton-gabertan/SecurityShepherdLabs
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:241 commits, 237 pushes, 33 branches in 4 months
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