Sam Quinn
0-day Team Lead - Offensive Cybersecurity Researcher at Exodus Intelligence
Bend, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolSam Quinn is a 11-year veteran offensive cybersecurity researcher and current 0-day Team Lead at Exodus Intelligence, specializing in hardware, embedded systems, and network vulnerability discovery. He combines hands-on exploit development with leadership of zero-day research teams, bringing prior senior research roles at Trellix and McAfee ATR. An Oregon State Computer Science alum, Sam pairs deep technical intuition with a track record of finding subtle flaws others miss and building tools to accelerate research. He also contributes to open-source projects—fixing bugs and improving back-end systems for notable repos like the Minecraft Botania mod—demonstrating pragmatic engineering beyond pure research. Based in Bend, Oregon, he stays active in the security community through conferences and workshops and balances intense technical work with a passion for skiing, mountain biking, and backpacking. Colleagues describe him as relentlessly curious, translating low-level system understanding into impactful, real-world vulnerability findings.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Oregon State University
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
javas10
minecraft10
debug10
java10
recipe9
develop9
localization7
javascript6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
VazkiiMods/Botania
May 2015 - Jan 2016
A tech mod for Minecraft themed around the magic of nature and plant life.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 30 PRs, 124 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on fixing bugs and implementing minor improvements to the Botania mod's codebase. They addressed rendering issues related to wireframe outlines, corrected errors in localization files (language updates), fixed a bug in an achievement trigger for the Thor ring, and corrected coordinate variable usage. Additionally, the user added new code for recipes to support ore dictionary in 1.8 versions and made minor adjustments to an existing recipe.
plantminecraftfabricmodmagic
Lazersmoke/boopadoop
Dec 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 release, 29 commits, 26 pushes in 8 months
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