Paul Biernat
Vulnerability Research Intern at RPISEC
City of Troy, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Biernat is a security engineer focused on reverse engineering, vulnerability research, and exploit development with 13 years of hands-on experience. Currently a Security Engineer Intern at Microsoft after internships at Parsons/Cromulence and Boston Cybernetics, he has practical experience finding and weaponizing firmware and binary vulnerabilities across x86, ARM64, MIPS, and other architectures. He rebuilt and led RPISEC from dormancy, teaching IDA Pro, Ghidra, GDB, and modern binary exploitation while mentoring undergraduate students. Notable accomplishments include automating tooling to double exploit development speed, achieving remote code execution via patch diffing and deserialization flaws, and developing TCP hijacking delivery techniques. Based in Troy, NY and studying Computer Science at RPI, he blends academic mentorship with real-world red-team-style research and training material development.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (16)
ssa10
mach-o10
ninja10
security9
reverse-engineering9
ctf9
unicorn9
decompilation9
api8
python8
reliability3
exchange1
bitcoin-api1
bitcoin1
irc1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pbiernat/ripr
Jan 2017 - Jul 2022
Package Binary Code as a Python class using Binary Ninja and Unicorn Engine
Contributions:44 commits, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 5 years 6 months
pythonunicorn-enginebinary-ninjaunicornas-code
pbiernat/BlackBox
Dec 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
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