Joshua Pereyda
CTO at Smart Pricing Table
Moscow, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Pereyda is a security-focused technology leader and current CTO with 11 years of experience designing and hardening software systems. He spent six years at Oracle as a senior software engineer in security after building security engineering foundations at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, coupling product-grade development with rigorous threat mitigation. An active backend engineer in notable open-source fuzzing projects—contributing fixes and refactors to Sulley and evolving it into boofuzz—he brings practical exploit-mitigation and automated testing expertise to product teams. Based in Moscow, Idaho, he blends academic rigor from an M.S. in Computer Science with hands-on engineering across startups and large enterprises. Colleagues rely on him to translate deep security tooling knowledge into stable, maintainable systems and to surface subtle platform-specific bugs into robust workarounds. He’s as comfortable improving CI-backed fuzz pipelines and connection-handling logic as he is shaping technical strategy as a CTO.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at University of IdahoB.S., Computer Science and Mathematics, B.S., Computer Science and Mathematics at Whitworth University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
python10
windows10
security10
network-protocol10
fuzzing10
testing9
debug9
debugging9
multithreading9
python-requests9
hyper-threading9
error-handling9
thread9
threaded9
automation7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jtpereyda/boofuzz
Nov 2015 - May 2021
A fork and successor of the Sulley Fuzzing Framework
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Security Engineer
Backend Developer & Security EngineerContributions:37 releases, 62 reviews, 679 commits in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily worked on refactoring the Sulley fuzzing framework into boofuzz, updating dependencies, and fixing bugs in the code. The user also implemented features related to handling network connection errors. They further contributed to improving the user interface and adding security-related features such as command injection handling.
pythonsecurityfuzzingfuzzing-frameworksuccessor
OpenRCE/sulley
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
A pure-python fully automated and unattended fuzzing framework.
Role in this project:Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:5 commits, 17 PRs, 26 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to the functionality and stability of the Sulley fuzzing framework. They addressed platform-specific issues related to signal handling on Windows by implementing workarounds using `time.sleep()` and thread-based servers. The contributions also included improving the utility by accepting relative filenames and adding parameters to the application. Further, the user made some adjustments to documentation.
pythonsecurityfuzzingfuzzing-frameworkfuzzer
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