Kirk Swidowski
Staff Security Engineer at Google
Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKirk Swidowski is a Staff Security Engineer with 13 years of deep expertise in vulnerability research, reverse engineering, and hypervisor-based security, now bringing that experience to Google from a senior technical leadership role at Raytheon. He has a proven track record discovering complex RCEs across x86, ARM, and PowerPC and building custom emulation and feedback-driven fuzzing tools to scale discovery across diverse OSes including Linux, Windows, VxWorks and bespoke RTOS. Kirk helped architect thin-hypervisors for mobile and endpoint protection at Samsung and Barkly—authoring patents and shipping technologies used in Samsung KNOX and novel anti-exploit products—while also optimizing low-level Windows drivers for significant performance gains. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and a technical lead, he has written multi-million dollar proposals, led medium-sized teams, and integrated security solutions with SoC vendors. Based in Texas with an M.S. in Computer Science, he pairs deep systems-level craftsmanship with pragmatic delivery, often inventing unconventional paging and hooking techniques to achieve visibility and control without invasive OS patching.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Associates of Applied Science, Computer Information Systems, Associates of Applied Science, Computer Information Systems at Cayuga Community CollegeMasters of Science, Computer Science, Masters of Science, Computer Science at State University of New York Institute of Technology
Github Skills (1)
metasploit9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
de7ec7ed/vertigo
Feb 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 1 year
de7ec7ed/metasploit-framework
Aug 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:10 pushes in 7 months
metasploitmetasploit-framework
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