Trent Brunson
Director Of Research & Development, Principal Security Engineer at Trail of Bits
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTrent Brunson is a Principal Security Engineer and Director of R&D at Trail of Bits with 11 years of applied security and research experience spanning government labs, academia, and industry. He combines deep technical breadth—from Windows driver development and IPv6 host discovery to cryptography and network data analysis—with a Ph.D. in computational physics, where he developed Monte Carlo and renormalization-group theory for complex networks. Trent has led teams and SBIR projects, delivered research to AFRL, AFOSR, and DARPA, and built reproducible analytical frameworks for statistical models on recursive networks. Known for pairing rigorous theoretical insight with hands-on engineering, he often moves between prototype research and production-ready solutions, and has a track record of turning hard research questions into operational capabilities.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics at Emory UniversityCanadian High SchoolB.Sc. Physics, B.Sc. Physics at West Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (16)
recursion6
jpcap6
knuth6
macos6
assembly6
interpreter6
makefile6
protocol-buffers6
llvm6
winpcap6
ruby5
programming-language5
compiler4
nyc4
infosec1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ainfosec/crema
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:86 commits in 2 months
crematuringcompilerprogramming-languageinterpreter
tn3rt/tn3rt.github.io
Jan 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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