Dead Prendergast
Principal Researcher & Target Of No-Touch Cyber Torture By Victoria Police at New Atlas
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolDead Prendergast is a Principal Researcher and veteran innopreneur based in Melbourne with 13 years of professional experience leading cross-disciplinary work in Bayesian AI, information retrieval, data visualisation and cyber defence. He founded VizDynamics to humanize data and has a track record of turning sparse, heterogeneous datasets into high-confidence forecasts used in executive decision-making. His work blends classical computer science, econometrics and probabilistic methods—favoring causal inference, the Markov blanket and hybrid Bayesian/classical approaches—to produce interpretable, simulation-backed models. Dead is also an experienced InfoSec practitioner focused on defence, quantitative risk analysis and secure-by-default engineering, and is writing a textbook on secure software engineering. Less obvious: his background spans early internet culture, embedded industrial control exposure and cryptographic curiosity, which informs a unique blend of practical systems engineering and theoretical research. He continues to advise publishers and mentor the next generation of GenAI software engineers while maintaining active research into spatiotemporal HPC and computational philosophy.
13 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at RMIT UniversityHigh School, High School at Brighton Grammar SchoolCert. Advanced Cyber Security, Cert. Advanced Cyber Security at Stanford University
Github Skills (13)
telegram9
telegram-api8
cross-platform7
telegram-client7
slot7
tdlib6
mtproto6
react4
security3
angularjs3
angular2
typescript2
privacy2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CompSciFutures/ReFamous
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 4 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 month
slotreplacementfixes
CompSciFutures/delog
Jun 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 release, 13 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 3 months
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