Scott Bauer
Technical Team Lead Product Security at Qualcomm
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Bauer is a Technical Team Lead in Product Security with 11 years of experience building secure systems and leading incident response at Qualcomm, where he manages a cross-regional team and drives fuzzing and firmware security for SoCs. He began in kernel and systems work—contributing NVMe and SED Opal features at Intel and researching kernel decomposition and kernel-targeted fuzzing at the University of Utah—bringing deep expertise in Linux internals and secure driver development. Scott is an exploit-focused security engineer who publishes Android kernel CVE proof-of-concepts (notably against Qualcomm camera and WiFi drivers), demonstrating practical reverse-engineering and exploit development skills. He combines hands-on vulnerability discovery (including 0-click research interests) with cross-organizational incident coordination and executive communication, making him effective at both technical root-cause analysis and program-level security improvements.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Github Skills (13)
c1710
exploit10
vulnerabilities10
security-vulnerability10
c1110
wifi-security10
vulnerability10
reverse-engineering9
audit8
audit-trail8
audit-logging8
code-auditing8
auditing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ScottyBauer/Android_Kernel_CVE_POCs
Jun 2016 - Sep 2018
A list of my CVE's with POCs
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:16 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributes proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for various Android kernel vulnerabilities related to Qualcomm MSM camera drivers and WiFi drivers. Their work includes writing and modifying C code to trigger vulnerabilities, demonstrating expertise in reverse engineering and exploit development within the Android ecosystem. The user also analyzes and addresses vulnerabilities in other system components, showcasing a solid understanding of operating system security. These contributions focus on identifying and exploiting security flaws within various components of the Android system.
pocssecuritycvepocexploit
ScottyBauer/nvme-cli
Aug 2016 - Jan 2018
NVMe management command line interface.
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 5 months
clicli-appmanagement-commandcommand-line-interfaceargument-parsing
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