Heather Preslier
Cyber Systems Exploitation Researcher
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHeather Preslier is a Cyber Systems Exploitation Researcher with 11 years of experience applying deep systems and software engineering skills to offensive and defensive cyber research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. She builds and refines low-level analysis tooling—contributing plugins for the PANDA platform to improve edge coverage, library tracking, and instrumentation—bridging research prototypes and reproducible analysis pipelines. Her background in computer engineering and hands-on roles from teaching advanced programming to internships at Visa give her a strong foundation in both systems design and practical software development. Based in Boston, she is known for pragmatic code that surfaces hard-to-find runtime behaviors, making complex dynamic analysis more auditable and actionable.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New York
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
qemu10
dynamic-analysis10
reverse-engineering9
protocol-buffers8
protobuf8
python4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
panda-re/panda
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
Platform for Architecture-Neutral Dynamic Analysis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 11 PRs, 11 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Heather implemented and refined plugins for the `panda-re/panda` project, which is a platform for dynamic analysis. The contributions involve developing a plugin for edge coverage, including initial implementation, adding logging capabilities, and refactoring for n-edge coverage. They also created a plugin to output loaded libraries for each program/ASID and made updates to proto files. The user's work focuses on enhancing the analysis capabilities of the PANDA platform.
dynamic-analysiscrosswordtest-datapandareanalysis
ResearchAdvancingFuzzing/raf
Nov 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:307 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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