Mike Myers
Security at Apple
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMike Myers is a seasoned security engineer with over two decades of low-level systems experience and eight years in senior engineering roles, now working in security at Apple. He specializes in endpoint security, native code, OS internals, and securing drivers and applications across Windows, macOS, and Linux, with a track record in DARPA programs, classified research, and Fortune 50 code audits. As a former staff engineer and team manager at Trail of Bits and CTO of a self-funded boutique firm, he has hired and mentored many engineers, led security audits for clients like Microsoft and Goldman Sachs, and helped grow businesses through technical leadership and community engagement. His open-source contributions include improving build and packaging for the widely used osquery project, where he also hardened Windows Thrift server access. Notably, he authored an oft-cited white paper on hypervisor rootkits in the late 2000s and published in the cult hacker journal Proof of Concept || GTFO, reflecting a blend of offensive insight and defensive rigor. He seeks roles where deep technical impact on consumer and endpoint security matters most.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
powershell10
cmake10
deploying10
build-automation10
macos6
osquery6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
osquery/osquery
Aug 2017 - Dec 2022
SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:134 reviews, 69 commits, 172 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mike's contributions primarily focused on improving the build and deployment processes for the osquery project, including the creation and maintenance of the MSI and Chocolatey packages. The commits involved modifying the build scripts, fixing bugs related to path variables and dependencies within the Windows package build process, and ensuring the correct inclusion of configuration files. Additionally, the user made changes to restrict access to the Thrift server pipe on Windows, enhancing security, and addressed issues related to handling empty arguments strings.
instrumentationanalyticsoperating-systemsecuritysql
osql/osql-site
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
The public website for osql.io
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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