Michael Pivonka
Security Researcher at NSS Labs LLC
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichael Pivonka is a security researcher and senior malware analyst with 14 years of hands-on experience in malware analysis, reverse engineering, and automated threat intelligence. Based in Houston, he combines deep systems curiosity with practical engineering skills—particularly Go—to build tooling for detection, unpacking, sandboxing, and classification. His work spans proactive takedowns and threat research at organizations like Vaccinator Security and Recorded Future, and he now contributes research at NSS Labs. Early roles in server administration, development, and facilities tech give him a rare operational perspective on how real-world infrastructure fails under attack. He founded and ran the IrisSec hacking club, mentoring peers and cultivating pragmatic defensive techniques. Colleagues know him for translating low-level reverse engineering into scalable, production-ready threat intelligence pipelines.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
None, Cisco and A+, None, Cisco and A+ at Highschool
Github Skills (140)
spotify-api10
recovery10
twitch-api10
passwords10
client-library9
hash9
cracking9
twitch9
spotify9
password-recovery9
pentesting9
rtsp-client8
plex8
phishing-detection8
hashcat8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
codedninja/TeamWatch
Dec 2018 - Oct 2020
A cross-platform desktop application that let's you watch NHL games for free without blackouts.
Contributions:4 releases, 7 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 10 months
desktop-applicationwindowselectrongamesjavascript
codedninja/docker-services
Sep 2020 - May 2023
all docker services
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 9 months
docker-composedocker
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