Edd Barrett
Research Fellow at King's College London
Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEdd Barrett is a vulnerability researcher and computer scientist with 15 years of experience blending academic research and hands-on systems development. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has worked extensively on language runtimes and meta-tracing through a decade-long research role at King’s College London and the COOLER project. Now splitting his time between research fellow duties and vulnerability work at Interrupt Labs, he brings deep reverse-engineering, low-level systems and open-source pedigree—he’s been an OpenBSD porting developer since 2009. Comfortable across UNIX administration, embedded control systems, web development and security research, he’s known for turning rigorous academic insight into practical tooling and exploit-mitigation strategies. Based in Canterbury, UK, he combines long-term stewardship of critical open-source infrastructure with active vulnerability discovery.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Computing, First class with honours, BSc Hons, Computing, First class with honours at Bournemouth UniversityPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Kent
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
benchmark10
lexer10
padding10
command-line-interface10
readonly10
vim10
libuv10
specification10
6800010
command-line-tool10
elf10
swi-prolog10
nvim10
integration-testing10
syncthing10
Programming languages (35)
Github contributions (5)
hippyvm/hippyvm
Jul 2014 - Jan 2016
HippyVM - an implementation of the PHP language in RPython
Contributions:524 commits, 26 PRs, 188 pushes in 1 year 6 months
php-languagephppython
vext01/passout
Apr 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:109 commits, 13 PRs, 33 pushes in 3 years 2 months
passworduberpassword-managergnupg
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