Mike Hunhoff
Senior Reverse Engineer at Google
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Hunhoff is a Senior Reverse Engineer with six years of hands-on experience in malware analysis and security engineering, currently applying his expertise at Google after key roles at Mandiant. He combines a strong academic foundation in Cyber Operations and Applied Computer Science with practical DoD experience developing capabilities and teaching computer science. Mike has contributed to high-profile open-source tooling like Mandiant's capa—improving architecture support and file-format checks—which underscores his focus on robust, cross-platform analysis. Known for bridging deep technical reverse engineering with pragmatic tooling improvements, he brings both offensive and defensive insight to complex binary investigations.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Cyber Operations, Bachelor of Science - BS, Cyber Operations at Dakota State University
Github Skills (11)
malware10
reverse-engineering10
python10
anti-malware10
security9
binarydiff9
it-security9
ghidra9
c-language8
assembly8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mandiant/capa
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
The FLARE team's open-source tool to identify capabilities in executable files.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:495 reviews, 227 commits, 241 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the capa project by implementing and refining security-focused features. Their commits demonstrate a strong understanding of malware analysis and reverse engineering, as they added checks for file format limitations in the capa explorer plugin, enhancing the tool's accuracy in identifying capabilities in executable files. They also worked on checking support for different architectures to ensure broader compatibility with x86/AMD64 shellcode analysis. This likely improved the tool's reliability and effectiveness in detecting and analyzing malware across various platforms.
flarereverse-engineeringcapabilitiesexecutableidentify
mandiant/Ghidrathon
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
The FLARE team's open-source extension to add Python 3 scripting to Ghidra.
Contributions:9 releases, 34 reviews, 18 commits in 9 months
ghidrapythonscriptingpython-3flare
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