Ken Johnson
Staff Research Development Engineer at Tenable
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolKen Johnson is a Staff Research Development Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience in vulnerability research, exploit development, and systems-level engineering, currently at Tenable. He runs a home lab of servers for projects ranging from hybrid-fuzzing clusters to log analysis, reflecting a practical, experiment-driven approach to security and tooling. Ken’s work spans penetration testing, 0-day research, protocol libraries (SSH, SMB, SNMP), static analysis, and compiler/VM internals, showing uncommon breadth across both offensive research and low-level systems programming. He is passionate about language design and crafting elegant, high-performance code, and he enjoys digging into nitty-gritty technical details that others often avoid. Based in Saint Paul, MN, he pairs a Master of Engineering in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins with a track record of shipping research-driven security capabilities at scale.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of EngineeringBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Augsburg College
French, Dutch
Github Skills (81)
rust-lang10
compiler10
rust10
burp9
garbage-collection9
rust-language9
standard-library9
argc9
crate9
allocator9
datalog8
computation8
cli-generator8
scoring8
lint8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
KenDJohnson/cpe-rs
Dec 2021 - Sep 2022
Rust CPE parsing library
Contributions:6 reviews, 4 commits, 7 PRs in 9 months
rustparsingcpeparserparsing-library
KenDJohnson/cvssrust
Aug 2020 - Oct 2024
Rust implementation of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (v2 / v3.0 / v3.1)
Contributions:9 pushes in 4 years 2 months
rustsecurityvulnerabilityscoring
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