John Novak
Principal Security Engineer at Praetorian
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Novak is a Principal Security Engineer at Praetorian with a proven track record in reverse engineering and IoT security across critical infrastructure, medical, and commercial domains. He led the formation of Praetorian's Reverse Engineering pod and drives complex embedded device assessments, blending deep hands-on vulnerability discovery with program-level leadership. His research uncovered a critical Azure B2C zero-day presented at DEFCON 31 that prompted Microsoft to rearchitect session management, illustrating impact at the platform scale. Before Praetorian he spent over a decade in computer network exploitation operations and vulnerability research, bringing operational tradecraft and mathematic rigor to applied security. Based in Washington, D.C., he holds a BS in Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon and combines analytical foundations with practical exploit and remediation experience.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (36)
maven10
java9
opengrok9
engine9
pentest9
azure-ad-b2c8
android8
instrumentation8
frida8
security8
code-search8
ios7
mobile6
vulnerabilities5
ctf5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
atmtest001/tcpprox
Oct 2018 - Apr 2021
A small command-line TCP proxy utility written in Python
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
command-line-toolpythonproxytcp-proxytcp
praetorian-inc/ctf-writeups
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Collection of Praetorian solutions to CTF challenges
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 18 days
ctf
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