K Wightman
Distinguished Technical Vulnerability Lead at Dragos, Inc.
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolK Wightman is a Distinguished Technical Vulnerability Lead with 13+ years of hands-on experience reverse engineering, auditing firmware and hardware, and breaking down complex embedded systems to find and remediate security flaws. Based in Des Moines, he has progressed from research roles at Syracuse University and AFRL to leadership positions at IOActive and Digital Bond before joining Dragos, where he now shapes vulnerability strategy for industrial and embedded targets. He combines deep assembly- and firmware-level expertise with practical security design advice, helping development teams harden systems from the silicon up. As founder of Revics Security and an active member of BEER ISAC, he blends entrepreneurial drive with industry collaboration to influence attacker-focused defenses. Notably, his career reflects sustained work at the intersection of communications, embedded engineering, and exploitation development—skills honed across both government research and private consultancy.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Syracuse University
English, Japanese, German, Spanish
Github Skills (99)
ics-security10
scada9
socket9
protocols9
tricks9
sketchup8
azerothcore8
vcr8
abaqus8
security8
siemens8
grid8
qbcore-framework8
poc8
ansible-collections8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
reidmefirst/modbus-vcr
Aug 2013 - May 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 3 years 9 months
modbusvcr
reidmefirst/vuln-disclosure
Aug 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 9 months
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