Rob King
Director Of Security Research at runZero
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob King is a Director of Security Research with decades of hands-on experience at the intersection of vulnerability research, network forensics, and high-performance security engineering. He has led security research and architecture at organizations from DARPA-contracted KoreLogic to HP’s TippingPoint DV Labs, earning industry recognition like the 3Com Innovator of the Year award and contributing to SC Magazine’s product of the year. Rob builds production-grade systems—everything from wire-speed traffic capture and reassembly engines to real-time signature toolchains and embedded event-correlation compilers—and has repeatedly translated deep research into operational products and startups. He’s a seasoned speaker and educator, having presented at BlackHat, Shmoocon, SANS, USENIX and lectured to DoD and IEEE audiences. Based in Austin, he blends low-level language and systems expertise (C, Python, compiler design) with practical security leadership, often delivering novel tooling and workflows that scale to multigigabit environments. A detail that surprises peers: many of his research projects were independently IV&V-reviewed and praised by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, underscoring their rigor and real-world applicability.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Incomplete) Computer Science, BSc (Incomplete) Computer Science at Lamar University
English, French
Github Skills (56)
tui10
web3py10
amiga10
mixer10
sam10
console-application10
multiplexer10
cli10
editor9
text-editor9
packet9
wireshark9
rust9
clutter8
smart-contracts8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
deadpixi/sam
Jul 2015 - Jul 2020
An updated version of the sam text editor.
Contributions:444 commits, 28 PRs, 207 pushes in 5 years
samupdatededitortext-editor
deadpixi/dpdb
Aug 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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