Ian Palleiko
Senior Security Researcher at Margin Research
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolIan Palleiko is a Senior Security Researcher based in Seattle with nine years of hands-on experience in reverse engineering and offensive security research. He leads technical investigations at Margin Research since 2019, bringing deep expertise in dissecting malware and adversary tooling informed by prior reverse engineering work at White Ops. His background as a Network & Linux Administrator at Champlain College ground his approach in practical incident response and forensic techniques. Ian combines classical systems-level debugging with modern threat intelligence to uncover subtle persistence and evasion mechanisms. Colleagues rely on him for translating complex low-level findings into actionable mitigations and clear reports for technical and non-technical stakeholders. He pairs a formal cybersecurity education with a tester’s curiosity, often surfacing hard-to-detect behaviors that standard tooling misses.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Networking & Cybersecurity, Bachelor's degree, Computer Networking & Cybersecurity at Champlain College
Github Skills (27)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
palleiko/vel
Nov 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:128 pushes in 10 months
palleiko/dotfiles
Aug 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:50 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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