Mitchell Datka
Senior Security Researcher at CrowdStrike
United States
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Top SchoolMitchell Datka is a Senior Security Researcher with seven years of hands-on experience in firmware and platform security, currently driving research at CrowdStrike after progressing from intern to senior researcher. He blends deep low-level skills—reverse engineering, machine code, and UEFI/ACPI analysis—with OSINT and automation to uncover hard-to-find firmware issues, and contributes to high-impact open source projects like chipsec. His background includes firmware security work at Intel and practical threat analysis, giving him a rare mix of offensive research and operational threat visibility. Known for pragmatic bug fixes and clearer diagnostic messaging in tooling, he helps bridge the gap between research findings and usable security assessments.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering and Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (13)
firmware10
uefi10
security-scan10
security-txt10
python10
security10
git6
binding6
anonymous6
datagrid6
dynamic6
gpg-signature6
linq6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chipsec/chipsec
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Platform Security Assessment Framework
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:35 releases, 868 reviews, 102 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Mitchell primarily contributes to the platform security assessment framework by modifying code related to UEFI and S3 boot scripts. They address issues where the framework fails to find S3 boot scripts by adding checks and providing more informative error messages. The user also fixed several Windows helper imports related to UEFI variable access, addressing errors in modules, and correcting syntax issues within the ACPI tables, specifically for interpreting error records. Furthermore, they made updates to the copyright and removed enterprise-specific verbiage.
security-toolsfirmwaresecurityfirmware-toolssecurity-platform
npmitche/chipsec
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
Platform Security Assessment Framework
Contributions:10 commits, 526 pushes, 490 branches in 6 months
securityassessmentsecurity-toolssecurity-platform
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