Summary
Dylan Bargatze is a Member of Technical Staff and cybersecurity specialist with over 15 years' experience across offensive security, embedded and low-level systems, and the defense industry. He combines deep expertise in microkernels, static/dynamic reverse engineering, fuzzing, and vulnerability research with practical systems programming in Rust, C/C++, C#, and assembly for x86/ARM. Dylan has delivered mission-critical software and led small agile teams at Northrop Grumman, advanced automated security tooling at ForAllSecure, and now contributes to networking/security work at Tailscale. He brings hands-on experience in constrained RTOS and embedded domains, SIGINT, and cloud-native tooling (Kubernetes, GCP), making him effective at turning research-grade findings into deployable mitigations. An OS hobbyist and low-level enthusiast, he blends academic rigor from Georgia Tech with a track record of shipping hardened systems and mentoring the next generation of engineers.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington