Michael Bailey is a seasoned Proposal Manager and technical communicator with 11 years of focused experience producing complex documentation and leading federal proposal efforts across healthcare, defense, IT, and retail clients such as the Missile Defense Agency, US Air Force, Medhost, VMware, Wells Fargo, and Best Buy. He combines deep expertise in DITA-based product documentation, compliance matrices, and proposal coordination with hands-on business analysis and financial reporting experience supporting DoD programs. Comfortable managing cross-functional reviews and curating capabilities and past-performance libraries, he now leads proposal strategy at Astrion while previously shaping content and processes at Axient and MEDHOST. Michael also contributes to security-focused open-source tooling—working on back-end components for Mandiant’s FLARE projects—bringing a practical reverse-engineering and network-analysis perspective that’s uncommon in proposal leadership. Based in Decatur, Alabama, he pairs meticulous, standards-driven writing with program-level thinking to turn technical complexity into auditable, bid-ready deliverables.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
History, History at University of Northwestern – St. Paul
Bachelor's Degree Communication General, Bachelor's Degree Communication General at Grand Canyon University
FakeNet-NG - Next Generation Dynamic Network Analysis Tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:9 reviews, 241 commits, 69 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Michael incorporated and tested the Linux Diverter component, a core piece of the project's dynamic network analysis capabilities. This involved implementing a base class for diverters, adding crucial code for managing network traffic redirection and handling nonlocal IP addresses. The user also refactored the code for better performance, added configuration helpers, and corrected commentations.
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on developing and enhancing utilities within the FLARE team's IDA Pro plugin. Their commits introduced new code grafting features, including the ability to remove grafted code and support for additional API calls and function types. These changes demonstrate a focus on expanding the plugin's functionality for reverse engineering tasks, specifically by enabling static linking of code for emulation.
ida-pluginida-proidaflareidapython
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