Ren Kimura
CEO at Ricerca Security, Inc.
Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolRen Kimura is the founder and CEO of Ricerca Security with 11 years of hands-on experience in vulnerability finding, software testing, virtualization, and system software. Based in Japan, he blends academic research—including a visiting researcher stint at Carnegie Mellon and a master’s in AI from Kobe University—with practical industry work at Preferred Networks and NTT. A pragmatic engineer, he contributes to notable open-source reverse-engineering tooling (radare2), improving memory snapshot, session management, and reverse-stepping capabilities that bolster debugging and forensic workflows. He leads a security startup while still actively shipping low-level tooling and research-driven features, reflecting a rare mix of leadership, deep systems expertise, and active craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
修士, Artificial Intelligence, 修士, Artificial Intelligence at 神戸大学
Japanese, English
Github Skills (11)
c1710
debugging10
debug10
radare210
reverse-engineering10
c1110
binarydiff10
command-line10
security9
anti-malware8
malware8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
radareorg/radare2
Mar 2017 - May 2018
UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 36 PRs, 31 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Ren primarily contributed to the reverse engineering framework by fixing bugs in memory snapshot functionalities and adding new commands related to session management and reverse stepping. The user added commands to apply, comment, and set snapshots, alongside a command for reverse single-step execution. Additionally, the user implemented a new trace session format, enhancing the debugging capabilities within the framework.
unixbinary-analysissecurityradare2forensics
RKX1209/Dnscript
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:33 commits, 36 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
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