Rowan Hart
Software Security Engineer at Microsoft
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolRowan Hart is a security researcher with eight years of hands-on experience in automated binary analysis, exploitation, and applied security across industry and academia. Currently at Apple after roles at Microsoft, Intel, and Research Innovations, he blends deep technical research from his Purdue MS with practical engineering that protects large-scale platforms. He organizes and competes in Capture The Flag events, translating adversarial thinking into tool development and vulnerability discovery. Known for moving smoothly between graduate research and production security engineering, he has a track record of shipping defensive and offensive capabilities for major hardware and software vendors. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, he brings a researcher’s curiosity to pragmatic, high-impact security work.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (200)
devsecops10
security-hardening10
parser10
cargo10
python10
windows10
frida10
low-level10
sbom10
std10
coverage10
security-automation10
security10
libpng10
ida10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
intel/tsffs
Sep 2023 - Sep 2024
A snapshotting, coverage-guided fuzzer for software (UEFI, Kernel, firmware, BIOS) built on SIMICS
Contributions:3 releases, 11 reviews, 99 PRs in 1 year
fuzzingrustsecuritysimics
novafacing/ghidra-decompiler
May 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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