Scott Young
Principal Reverse Engineer at Mimic
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolScott Young is a Principal Reverse Engineer with over 9 years of focused experience in software and systems-level reverse engineering, currently leading technical efforts at Mimic from Ashburn, Virginia. His career spans government and private-sector work—moving from kernel hacking and CNA/CND tool development to advanced reverse engineering roles at Praxis Engineering and ManTech—demonstrating deep expertise across Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD internals. He brings a rare blend of research-oriented rigor (PhD coursework in Computer Science) and hands-on product delivery, including biometric keystroke work, power/thermal modeling, and secure healthcare database systems early in his career. Scott is comfortable bridging low-level exploitation and defensive engineering, and he has a track record of creating practical tooling and synchronized systems that support mission-critical operations.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS/MS Computer Science, BS/MS Computer Science at SUNY Polytechnic InstitutePhD - All But Dissertation Computer Science, PhD - All But Dissertation Computer Science at Syracuse University
English, French
Github Skills (15)
ghidra10
reverse-engineering10
sre10
decompilation9
api9
ninja9
architecture3
armv73
mips2
plugin-architecture2
armv82
unicorn2
bare-metal2
arm2
powerpc1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
praxiseng/reveal
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:22 commits, 17 pushes in 7 months
praxiseng/flowslicer
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
Flowslicer is a Binary Ninja plugin to lift code into Data Flow Intermediate Language. Then, it processes data flow slices and analyzes match sets against a database.
Contributions:39 commits, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
binary-ninjadata-flowreverse-engineering
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