Max Vonblankenburg
Security Researcher at Semgrep
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Vonblankenburg is a Security Researcher at Semgrep in San Francisco who specializes in uncovering vulnerabilities in open-source applications and encoding those findings into detection rules for supply chain security. With two years of focused experience, he has researched hundreds of CVEs across Go, Python, Java, C#, Ruby and JavaScript and built tooling to automate and scale rule authoring. He volunteers as a CTF developer for the Pacific Hackers Association and has hands-on experience designing practical capture-the-flag challenges, including NFT/smart-contract scenarios. Past roles span smart contract auditing and automation at AnChain.AI and infrastructure and competition ops for community college CTF platforms, showing a blend of offensive research and engineering rigor. A lifelong learner and educator, Max actively mentors newcomers to the security field and prioritizes tooling and automation to multiply researcher productivity.
1 year of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS Mathematics and Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Mathematics and Computer Science at Santa Rosa Junior CollegeBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Sonoma State UniversityHigh School Degree none, High School Degree none at San Marin High SchoolNone Computer Networking & Information Technology, None Computer Networking & Information Technology at City College of San Francisco
Github Skills (14)
sca10
cve10
vulnerability10
database9
security9
vulnerabilities9
security-vulnerability9
semgrep7
static-analysis4
documentation3
javascript1
querystring1
nodejs1
esbuild1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Fidget-Grep/scala-example-proj
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Fidget-Grep/kotlin-example-proj
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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