Ryan Stortz
Principal Engineer at Vigilant Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Stortz is a Principal Engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience leading security research and product efforts at companies like Vigilant Labs and Trail of Bits. He blends deep reverse-engineering and program-analysis expertise—taint propagation, symbolic execution, SMT solving—with product-focused leadership, having headed product and research teams. Ryan contributes to open-source tooling for binary analysis, notably enhancing Binary Ninja’s API with iterator support and structured-data readers to make complex binary inspection more ergonomic. His background includes directing small research teams, creating training for reverse engineering, and shipping pragmatic security tooling for enterprise and defense customers. He pairs hands-on low-level software development with product instincts from formal Product Management training, making him effective at turning advanced research into usable developer-facing tools.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Product Management, Product Management at General AssemblyB.S. Computer Networks and Systems, B.S. Computer Networks and Systems at Ferris State University
Github Skills (9)
reverse-engineering10
python10
intermediate-code9
intermediate-language9
decompilation9
code-analysis8
analyse8
program-analysis8
source-code-analysis8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Vector35/binaryninja-api
Apr 2016 - Oct 2020
Public API, examples, documentation and issues for Binary Ninja
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 11 PRs, 51 comments in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on extending the Binary Ninja API by adding iterator functionality to core data structures like `Function`, `BasicBlock`, and `ILBasicBlock`. They introduced `__iter__` methods to facilitate iteration over basic blocks and instructions, enhancing the API's usability. Additionally, the user fixed a bug related to stack content retrieval and added a `StructuredDataView` class and related classes to read structured binary data.
apibinary-analysisdocumentation-examplesreverseengineeringdecompilation
withzombies/bnil-graph
Aug 2017 - Jul 2019
A BinaryNinja plugin to graph a BNIL instruction tree
Contributions:10 releases, 7 reviews, 16 commits in 1 year 11 months
graphbinaryninja-pluginbnil-instruction-treebnil-graphbinaryninja
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