Evan Walls
Cyber Vulnerability Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Walls is a Cyber Vulnerability Engineer with seven years of hands-on experience in computer and network security, currently focused on offensive and defensive research at Johns Hopkins APL. He combines strong low-level skills in IoT exploitation, C, and Python with practical vulnerability analysis gained at Tactical Network Solutions and the Department of Defense. Evan contributes to reverse-engineering tooling—adding IDA Pro support and improving AlleyCat plugins—demonstrating a knack for making complex tooling more usable and robust. He holds a BS in Computer Science with a Math minor from West Virginia University and is completing an MS in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins, blending academic rigor with operational impact. Notably, his work often sits at the intersection of exploit development and tooling, surfacing hard-to-find vulnerabilities while improving analyst workflows.
7 years of coding experience
Minor, Mathematics, Minor, Mathematics at West Virginia UniversityJohns Hopkins University
Github Skills (6)
plugin-development10
reverse-engineering10
ida10
python10
security9
code-analysis9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
grayhatacademy/ida
Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to the project by adding functionality and making changes to support IDA Pro. Their commits include updates to existing Python scripts for the AlleyCat plugin, adding install scripts, and addressing bugs within the localxrefs and codatify plugins. The user demonstrates a strong understanding of reverse engineering tools and plugin development. They also made significant contributions to the project's usability and overall robustness.
grayhatacademy/ghidra_scripts
Aug 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 54 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 8 months
idaplugin-frameworkghidraghidra-plugin
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