Jacob Hoopes
Sr. Principal Security Engineer at Veritas Technologies LLC
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Hoopes is a Sr. Principal Security Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience in red teaming, fuzzing, reverse engineering, and binary exploitation, currently uncovering 0day vulnerabilities in mission-critical products at Veritas. He combines deep penetration testing expertise from Synack, Cobalt.io and enterprise roles at Salesforce and VMware with practical security automation in CI/CD pipelines. An active open-source contributor, he has improved DefectDojo parsers and integrated SAST results to streamline vulnerability management workflows. Based in the Salt Lake City area, Jacob brings a pragmatic blend of offensive research and engineering, often turning complex reverse-engineering findings into repeatable security tooling and fixes.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Security, BS Information Security at ITT Technical Institute
English
Github Skills (11)
it-security10
parser10
parsing10
python10
parse10
django10
security10
owasp9
vulnerability-management9
security-automation8
burp8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DefectDojo/django-DefectDojo
Jan 2019 - Aug 2022
DevSecOps, ASPM, Vulnerability Management. All on one platform.
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Backend & Security EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 11 commits, 14 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the project by identifying and addressing vulnerabilities within the DefectDojo platform. Their work involved analyzing code related to various parsers (Burp, OWASP ZAP, Arachni, and PWN SAST) and implementing bug fixes to improve their functionality. Furthermore, they implemented enhancements and simplified code for the OWASP ZAP parser. Finally, they integrated the PWN SAST parser, enabling the import of code scanning results.
pythondjangovulnerability-managementbugbountydefectdojo
0dayInc/container.aflplusplus.template
Jul 2023 - Sep 2023
Docker project for AFL++ that Assists Security Researchers with Advanced Instrumenting / Fuzzing Binaries
Contributions:163 PRs, 86 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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