Matt Brown
Founder & Principal Consultant at Brown Fine Security
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolMatt Brown is a security-focused engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience specializing in IoT and embedded device security. As Founder & Principal Consultant at Brown Fine Security and a Staff Security Engineer at Alarm.com, he combines hands-on hardware hacking, firmware analysis, and attack-driven pentesting to harden connected devices. His background spans chip-off forensics, UART/debug analysis, SystemD/network stack troubleshooting, and building exploit tooling and firmware build environments in C, Python, and Docker. Matt has led hardware pentests across sectors, launched internal IoT pentesting programs, and advised executives on secure firmware architecture. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he pairs a Master’s in Computer Engineering with a pragmatic, research-oriented approach—he even runs Arch Linux and brings a hacker’s curiosity to defensive work.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
Chinese, French, English
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Github Skills (49)
upstream10
linux10
x8610
security10
kernel10
chat10
selinux10
privacy10
in-scope10
x86-6410
irc10
hardening10
freenode10
multiarch10
jtag9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nmatt0/red-team-cheat-sheet
Apr 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
nmatt0/pen-testing-scripts
Apr 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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