Derek Rynd
Member Of Technical Staff at Draper
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Rynd is a seasoned software engineer and security researcher with 11 years of hands-on experience in Windows kernel development, reverse engineering, and hypervisor design for Intel VT-x and AMD SVM. As a Member of Technical Staff at Draper and the independent operator behind VMspy, he has built type-1 and type-2 hypervisors, performed kernel- and driver-level reverse engineering, and published practical research on exploitation techniques and system internals. Proficient in C/C++, x86/x64 assembly, and tooling such as IDA Pro, x64dbg, and WinDbg, he also contributes to open-source projects like ReClassEx where he improved memory and type handling and removed external dependencies. Based in Cambridge, MA, Derek blends deep systems expertise with applied security research, often producing tools and write-ups that bridge academic rigor and real-world offensive/defensive use cases.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Graduated, Graduated at Flower Mound High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Oklahoma State University
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Github Skills (13)
memory-management10
memory-model10
memory-allocation10
c-language10
reverse-engineering10
cprogramming-language10
x86-649
64-bit9
pdb8
ios6
cross-compiling6
android6
llvm6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ajkhoury/ReClassEx
Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
ReClassEx
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 33 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Derek focused on updating and refactoring code related to data type handling and memory management within the ReClassEx project, as evidenced by the commit messages and code diffs. They made changes to the code for handling different data types such as QWORD, DWORD, and WORD. The user also implemented a custom function to handle symbol name undecoration, aiming to remove dependencies. Additionally, the user refactored code for code formatting and general cleanup of the source code.
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ajkhoury/JetBrains-NASM-Language
Jun 2017 - May 2020
Plugin that adds NASM assembly language support for the IntelliJ Platform IDEs
Contributions:18 releases, 102 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 11 months
intellij-platformassembly-languagenasm-assemblynasmlanguage-support
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