Moshe Kaplan
IT Specialist at US Government
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMoshe Kaplan is an IT specialist and cybersecurity engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience designing, building, and operating detection and response capabilities for federal agencies. He combines low-level systems programming expertise—evident in memory and file-handle fixes across high-profile open-source projects like PCSX2, Redis, and Wireshark—with offensive security research, including Metasploit contributions for Oracle privilege escalation. At the IRS and currently in government service he automated security event analysis, introduced test-driven practices for internal tooling, and led SOC onboarding and FISMA incident-response work. He also consults for small businesses, teaches university classes, and has briefed industry panels on open-source security, reflecting a strong blend of technical depth, mentorship, and public-sector impact. Notably, his open-source footprint spans both stability-focused bug fixes and advanced fuzzing and exploit tooling, demonstrating a rare balance of defensive and offensive skillsets.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Cyber Security, Master's Degree Cyber Security at New York University - Polytechnic School of EngineeringEngineering Honors, Engineering Honors at Brooklyn College
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (52)
caching10
c-language10
penetration-testing10
key-value-store10
python10
nosql10
redis10
sas10
meta10
memory-management10
databases10
c1110
device-emulation10
security10
ruby10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
wireshark/wireshark
Jan 2016 - Dec 2022
Read-only mirror of Wireshark's Git repository at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark. You're welcome to submit pull requests there.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:128 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Moshe primarily focused on bug fixes and code enhancements within the Wireshark codebase. Their contributions included addressing typos, correcting code formatting, and improving code clarity. The user also added features such as exporting IMF traffic as an EML file and generating HTTP Referer statistics, indicating a focus on extending the software's functionality. In addition to code modifications, the user was also involved in documenting code improvements, and providing technical input through the usage of clear commit messages.
wiresharkpacket-capturetsharkstratoshark
googleprojectzero/winafl
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
A fork of AFL for fuzzing Windows binaries
Role in this project:Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 18 commits, 14 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Moshe primarily contributed to the `winafl-cmin.py` script, focusing on enhancing its functionality and usability. These changes included adding command-line arguments for specifying crash and hang directories, refactoring the main function for improved readability, and implementing checks for the validity of input arguments. Additionally, the user made modifications to `afl-fuzz.c` to support specifying the path of `winafl.dll` and fixed a copy-paste error. The user also fixed flake8 issues in `winafl-plot.py` and `winafl-whatsup.py`.
fuzzingwindowssecurityafl
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