Ronan Kervella
Senior Security Engineer at Bishop Fox
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRonan Kervella is a Senior Security Engineer based in San Jose with 11 years of offensive security experience focused on vulnerability research, penetration testing, and adversary emulation. He has a strong track record at Bishop Fox, contributing both as a consultant and now as a senior engineer, and previously supported government-grade R&D and industrial security teams in France. Ronan is an active backend and security contributor to BishopFox/sliver, improving Windows process enumeration and privilege interaction for a widely used adversary emulation framework. His background blends hands-on protocol reverse engineering and secure software development, from Java systems to low-level Windows API work. He teaches offensive security techniques and translates complex attack scenarios into actionable remediation and tooling improvements. Colleagues appreciate his ability to bridge deep technical research with pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
DUT Informatique Information Technology, DUT Informatique Information Technology at IUT d'OrsayIngénieur Informatique, Ingénieur Informatique at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)
French, English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
it-security10
go10
ws-api10
winapi10
wp-api10
security10
emulation9
reverse-engineering8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
BishopFox/sliver
Jan 2019 - May 2020
Adversary Emulation Framework
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Backend & Security EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 56 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ronan contributed significantly to the adversary emulation framework by implementing core features and making architectural changes. Their work included adding process owner information to the `ps` command on Windows, which involved modifying code in several files including `ps_windows.go` and related files. Further contributions involved refactoring the `processes()` function to utilize the `syscall` library, and other improvements to better interact with the Windows APIs. Also added the ability to run commands and access the systems privileges
dns-servercommand-and-controladversarial-attackssecurity-toolsdns
lesnuages/yuki
May 2018 - Dec 2024
Command line packet parser
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 56 pushes in 6 years 8 months
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