Marc Bevand
Angel Investor at Self-employed
France
Summary
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Top SchoolMarc Bevand is an information security engineer and angel investor with 13 years of hands-on experience building secure systems, optimizing high-performance GPU code, and shipping hardware as a cofounder of one of the earliest Bitcoin ASIC vendors. He has held security and architecture roles at Rapid7 and Google, where he performed vulnerability research, security audits, and large-scale infrastructure optimizations. Marc’s technical breadth spans reverse engineering and embedded/IoT firmware work—evidenced by contributions enabling SD storage on Wyze/Dafang cameras—and high-performance GPGPU development, including optimizations for a Zcash miner. As an investor with Tech Coast Angels he funds seed-stage startups across crypto, InfoSec, IoT, and home automation, bringing operator experience to capital allocation. Notable for quickly turning complex hardware supply into a production run at Thin Air Ventures, he pairs deep low-level engineering skills with practical business execution. He holds a Master’s in IT from EPITA and is based in France.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Information Technology, System, Network, and Security, Master's Degree, Information Technology, System, Network, and Security at EPITA: Ingénierie Informatique
Github Skills (19)
opencl10
scripting10
firmware10
gpu-programming10
bash10
c1110
c1710
gpio10
script10
performance-optimization10
sys10
sh10
embedded10
shell10
bootloader9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mbevand/silentarmy
Oct 2016 - Dec 2017
Zcash miner optimized for AMD & Nvidia GPUs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 92 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Marc primarily contributed to optimizing the Zcash miner, focusing on performance improvements and fixing memory access issues. They moved OpenCL code into the binary, improved performance by reducing counter usage, and addressed unaligned memory access issues to support broader GPU compatibility. They also implemented debug code for analysis and reduced GPU memory usage.
amdminernvidiazcash
EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks
May 2019 - May 2019
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Marc primarily worked on modifying firmware for a Wyze camera, specifically focusing on enabling SD card functionality and modifying the boot process. Their contributions involved modifying the rcfile.sh script to mount the SD card and integrating changes to manage the SD card interface, as well as providing firmware binaries for the Wyze V2 camera. The user also addressed issues related to the camera's boot sequence and interaction with the SD card.
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