Zhang Yakun
Senior R&D Engineer at Baidu Inc.
Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
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Top SchoolZhang Yakun is a Senior R&D Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience in reverse engineering, vulnerability research, and anti-virus technology across x86, ARM, Linux kernel and Android ecosystems. Currently at Baidu, he combines deep low-level debugging and exploit development experience from roles at Intel Security, Qihoo 360 and Kaspersky with strong software engineering skills in C, C++, Python, JavaScript and Rust. He has a proven track record of finding and responsible-disclosing critical vulnerabilities (including CVE-2016-7082 and CVE-2017-4948) and has spoken at BlackHat Europe, evidencing both technical depth and community recognition. A Linux enthusiast and fast learner, he bridges security research and practical defensive tooling—authoring detection patterns, fuzzers and anti-virus systems in prior roles. Notably, his background spans virtualization security, kernel hardening research and Android malware analysis, giving him a rare cross-platform perspective on real-world threats.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Lanzhou Jiaotong University
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Github Skills (63)
restful-api10
restful10
code-generation10
gateway10
rest-api10
plugin9
grpc-gateway9
translation9
famework9
airplay9
microservice-framework9
client-library9
ats9
v2ray9
golang9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zfkun/node-airplay
Dec 2013 - Jul 2015
Contributions:48 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 1 year 6 months
airplayclient-librarynode-jsnodejsapple
ecomfe/saber-env
Mar 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:37 commits in 2 months
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