Tim Strazzere
Principle Security Engineer at Red Naga, LLC
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Strazzere is a principal security engineer with 15 years of deep expertise in mobile reverse engineering, anti-analysis techniques, and threat research, currently based in California. He has a long track record of public speaking at top security conferences (Black Hat, DEF CON, HiTCON, Android Security Summit) and builds practical tooling used by the community, including Android unpackers and APKiD YARA rules. Tim’s open-source work demonstrates hands-on mastery across Android, Go, and low-level debugging—everything from anti-emulator checks and TaintDroid detection to Go binary assists for IDA Pro. He has held senior security roles at Corellium, Cloudflare, Cruise, and Lookout and runs Red Naga, delivering automated black-box testing and training focused on mobile platforms. Notably, his contributions blend offense and engineering—designing unpackers that bypass real-world protectors and creating detection rules that improve malware and packer identification. Colleagues rely on him to bridge reverse engineering research into production-ready security tooling and programmatic defenses.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellBMHS
Github Skills (27)
unit-testing10
unpack10
python10
deobfuscation10
testing10
c1110
java10
c1710
javas10
go10
malware10
ida10
android10
malware-detection10
golang10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
strazzere/anti-emulator
Jul 2013 - Jan 2021
Android Anti-Emulator
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:31 commits, 4 PRs, 26 pushes in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to an Android anti-emulator project, focusing on detecting emulated environments and TaintDroid. They implemented functionality to identify emulators through checks for known device IDs, phone numbers, system properties, and file paths. Furthermore, the user developed methods to detect TaintDroid presence by examining class availability and member variables. Later, they added checks for Monkey users and Genymotion files, along with the detection of debugger presence and tracer PID.
emulatorantiandroid-frameworkdalvikandroid
strazzere/golang_loader_assist
Sep 2016 - Jun 2020
Making GO reversing easier in IDA Pro
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 23 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the project by developing tools and utilities for reverse engineering Go binaries within IDA Pro. Their work included writing a Python script to assist with string and function analysis, specifically targeting the challenges of reversing Go code. The user added and updated functionality, refined string loading and function renaming capabilities and optimized the analysis process to enhance the efficiency of the reversing workflow.
golangidaida-proreversingpython
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