Joshua Smith
Vulnerability Intelligence Manager And Senior Security Researcher at Trend Micro
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Smith is a vulnerability intelligence manager and senior security researcher with 15 years of experience blending military-grade operational rigor and advanced academic training into practical threat discovery and mitigation. Based in Austin, he leads vulnerability research at Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, driving disclosure and exploit analysis that inform both product protections and industry guidance. His background spans government, defense contracting, and commercial labs—roles that honed skills in offensive research, large-scale assessment, and coordinated vulnerability response. Joshua holds an MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins and a strong engineering foundation from RPI, and he often mixes dry humor with technical depth (e.g., “the cake is a lie”) that belies a thorough, methodical approach to security research.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Management of Information Systems, 3.9, MA, Management of Information Systems, 3.9 at University of Great FallsJohns Hopkins UniversityBS, Aeronautical Engineering, 3.87, BS, Aeronautical Engineering, 3.87 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English, Spanish, Albanian, ruby, python
Github Skills (200)
docker-machine10
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security10
ruby10
automation10
vms10
hdmi-cec10
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scada10
virtualization10
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vagrant10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
thezdi/cvelist
Oct 2017 - Apr 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 245 pushes, 126 branches in 5 years 7 months
kernelsmith/about
Jan 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 9 months
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