Jonah Burgess
Senior Security Researcher at Rapid7
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJonah Burgess is a Senior Security Researcher and ethical hacker with 11 years’ experience blending offensive research, exploit development, and education from Belfast. He leads vulnerability research and PoC development at Rapid7 while running CryptoCat—producing tutorials, CTF challenges, and bug bounty disclosures that bridge hands-on exploitation with practical defenses. Jonah holds an MSc and a PhD in Cyber Security from Queen’s University Belfast and has a history of building realistic lab materials and scoring over 50 custom CTF challenges for major events. His open-source contributions include pwn-focused exploit scripts and pwntools tooling, reflecting deep expertise in binary exploitation, buffer overflows, and ROP chains. Equally comfortable in front of a camera or a debugger, he translates complex attacker techniques into detections, advisories, and community training.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Statement of Participation Introduction To Cyber Security, Statement of Participation Introduction To Cyber Security at The Open UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Cyber Security, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cyber Security at Queen's University BelfastBachelor of Technology (BTech) - Level 3 Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) - Level 3 Information Technology at Belfast Metropolitan College
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Crypto-Cat/CTF
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
CTF challenge (mostly pwn) files, scripts etc
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:1 review, 233 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jonah contributed scripts for exploiting vulnerabilities in Capture The Flag (CTF) challenges, with a specific focus on pwn challenges, indicated by the code changes. These contributions involve writing exploits utilizing tools such as pwntools to address binary exploitation challenges. The user appears proficient in buffer overflows and exploiting functions like `ret2win`, crafting payloads, and leveraging ROP chains to achieve specific goals within the challenge.
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Crypto-Cat/REdiREKT
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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