Jared Stroud
Lead Reverse Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolJared Stroud is a lead reverse engineer and security researcher with 12 years of hands-on experience bridging threat intelligence, offensive tooling, and cloud incident response across government and industry. Currently at Johns Hopkins APL and founder of Arch Cloud Labs, he has contributed exploit modules to Metasploit, built adversary emulation agents for MITRE, and presented research at DEF CON and Shmoocon. His background spans reverse engineering Windows, Linux, Android, and embedded malware, plus developing automated pipelines (CI/CD, AWS) and honeypots to surface emerging threats. Jared combines deep technical craftsmanship—authoring Ghidra scripts and in-memory payload techniques—with practical playbooks and product-facing intelligence that have improved detection in commercial tooling. Unusually, he pairs academic rigor as a Doctor of Engineering candidate with prolific independent research that is routinely integrated into offensive frameworks.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computing Security, Master's degree Computing Security at Rochester Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Engineering, Doctor of Engineering at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
English
Github Skills (7)
metasploit10
ruby10
vulnerability9
reverse-engineering9
exploit9
vulnerabilities9
security-vulnerability9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rapid7/metasploit-framework
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
Metasploit Framework
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 14 commits, 7 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jared contributed to a Metasploit module designed to dump memory from processes using the Avast anti-virus tool's utility. They initially implemented the module, then enhanced it by storing data in the loot database. Subsequent commits focused on refining the module's execution, including incorporating feedback, adding error handling, and expanding the locations for the `AvDump.exe` binary. The user's work primarily centered around exploiting a vulnerability or utility available in a popular anti-virus software.
metasploitmetasploit-framework
nccgroup/binja_arch_ref
Sep 2017 - Feb 2023
A simple Binary Ninja plugin to display a cheat sheet with information about the current architecture
Contributions:2 PRs in 5 years 6 months
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