Vadim Kotov
Senior Security Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVadim Kotov is a Senior Security Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of hands-on experience in reverse engineering, program analysis, and malware research across Windows, Linux and Android platforms. At Google since 2018 he has moved from security engineering into senior roles, bringing deep expertise in C and assembly (x86, ARM, even 6502), tools like IDA Pro, Ghidra, gdb and Frida, and scripting in Python. His background includes partnering with data scientists to build ML-driven malware defenses at Cylance and a string of research roles focused on exploit analysis, automation and threat research. Academically trained to near-PhD level in information security, he’s shifted recent research interest from applying machine learning to security toward formal verification of programs. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic researcher who combines low-level reverse engineering instincts with a growing interest in rigorous, verifiable security.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Information security specialist (5 year bachelor), computer and network security, 4.8/5, Information security specialist (5 year bachelor), computer and network security, 4.8/5 at Ufa State Aviation Technical University
English
Github Skills (25)
unix10
radare210
security10
command-line10
reverse-engineering10
monitoring9
networking9
linux9
python-bindings9
cpp8
valgrind8
bpf8
armv77
llvm-ir6
armv86
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vadimkotov/runsc
Jun 2015 - Oct 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 5 months
vadimkotov/apple1-old
Dec 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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