Darin Mao
Software Engineer at DRW
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDarin Mao is a software engineer with nine years of experience blending systems engineering and applied security, currently building trading technology at DRW in Houston. He has hands-on background in penetration testing and code audits from Electrovolt Security, plus cloud-native and zero-downtime system work at Amazon and The Aerospace Corporation. Darin taught graduate- and undergraduate-level systems and architecture courses at Georgia Tech, grounding his practical work in deep computer-architecture and OS knowledge. He also authors cybersecurity challenge content and competes in capture-the-flag events with RedPwn and DiceGang, reflecting a competitive, research-driven approach to security. Known for designing maintainable, scalable systems that prioritize safety and sustainability, he brings both offensive-security instincts and production-grade engineering discipline. An appetizing quirk: he claims to respond best to messages that include a fried chicken recipe, hinting at a playful, human side beneath rigorous technical focus.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyThomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (56)
assembly10
inetd10
exploit10
xinetd10
ctf9
sandbox9
ctf-platform9
shellcode9
intranet9
security9
linux9
ctf-tools9
dub9
ctf-framework8
docker8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
DarinMao/SISWebApp
Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
A custom FCPS StudentVUE client written in Vue.js
Contributions:23 commits, 7 PRs, 21 pushes in 7 months
studentvuevuevue-jsvuejs
DarinMao/ManPageBot
Oct 2017 - May 2021
Discord bot to fetch manual pages
Contributions:165 commits, 8 PRs, 38 pushes in 3 years 7 months
discord-jsdiscordbotdiscord-botdiscord-py
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