Douglas Flick
UEFI Firmware Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDouglas Flick is a UEFI firmware engineer with 11 years of systems-focused experience, currently building secure low-level firmware at Microsoft in Redmond. He specializes in C/C++ with extensive work in Python and bash, and is exploring Rust for systems programming. His background in cyber software engineering at Northrop Grumman and active contributions to the widely used tianocore/edk2 project highlight a practical focus on eliminating buffer overflows and hardening UEFI components. A hobbyist hardware hacker and homelabber, he brings curiosity-driven reverse engineering skills to production security fixes.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Cincinnati
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Github Skills (7)
c1710
firmware10
uefi10
c1110
security10
build-tools6
edk26
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tianocore/edk2
Jun 2023 - Oct 2024
EDK II
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 11 PRs, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Douglas primarily focuses on security patches within the `edk2` repository, specifically addressing vulnerabilities related to buffer overflows and out-of-bounds reads. Their contributions involve renaming sanitation functions and implementing checks to prevent truncated options and buffer overflows, impacting multiple components, including `DxeTpmMeasureBootLib`, `DxeTpm2MeasureBootLib`, and `Ip6Dxe`. These changes directly enhance the security posture of the UEFI firmware.
uefipythonfirmwarec
Flickdm/mu_plus
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Project Mu Microsoft Core UEFI Value
Contributions:1 PR, 36 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 10 months
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