Roman Kesler
VP Of Research at Cybellum
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolRoman Kesler is a VP of Research with eight years of hands-on experience in automotive and computer security, leading research teams at Cybellum and previously serving in development leadership roles in the IDF. He combines deep reverse-engineering expertise (IDA Pro, Ghidra, WinDbg, x64dbg, radare2, gdb) with systems-level coding in Python, C/C++, C#, and assembly to drive pragmatic vulnerability discovery and exploit mitigation. Roman has contributed to the angr binary analysis platform, improving its core analysis engine and indirect call handling—demonstrating both open-source impact and low-level analysis skills. Academically grounded with a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and an MBA, he blends rigorous analytical thinking with product-minded leadership. Peers describe him as a researcher who moves fluidly between tool-building, code-level fixes, and strategic research direction.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), 92, Master of Business Administration (MBA), 92 at Tel Aviv UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Applied Mathematics, 92, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Applied Mathematics, 92 at Bar-Ilan University
Russian, Hebrew, English, German
Github Skills (10)
debugging10
debug10
python10
binarydiff10
angr10
analyse9
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
angr/angr
Jun 2018 - May 2019
A powerful and user-friendly binary analysis platform!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 9 PRs, 5 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Roman primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the `angr` project, focusing on debugging and enhancing the core analysis engine. Their work involved fixing list-out-of-range errors in the loop seer module, adding exception handling for potential KeyError issues in memory operations, and extending functionality by adding handlers for indirect calls within the reaching definitions analysis. They also made a small change to the cfg base normalization and enhanced indirect call handling behavior.
pythonbinary-analysisanalysisuser-friendlyangr
HexRoman/cvelist
Aug 2022 - Feb 2024
Pilot program for CVE submission through GitHub
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
securitycvepilot
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