Zi Tan
Security Engineer at Google
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZi Tan is a security engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in reverse engineering, vulnerability research, and low-level systems work using C, C++, Python and x86. Currently securing Android and Pixel at Google, Zi brings practical expertise in fuzzing, static/dynamic analysis, Linux kernel development and Android internals. A long-time contributor to radare2, Zi has improved binary analysis, DEX parsing and added support for Swift calling conventions and Authentihash for PE files—signals of deep hands-on tooling experience in the reverse-engineering community. Academically strong with a near-4.0 BS in Computer Science and an early Google Summer of Code project, Zi blends rigorous engineering with open-source impact to find and fix subtle platform vulnerabilities.
11 years of coding experience
San José State UniversityAssociate's degree, Computer Science, 4.000, Associate's degree, Computer Science, 4.000 at Diablo Valley College
English, Chinese, Bahasa Malaysia
Github Skills (11)
c1710
reverse-engineering10
c1110
dis10
binarydiff10
disassembly10
anti-malware9
c-programming9
malware9
security8
command-line7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
radareorg/radare2
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 38 commits, 28 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Zi primarily contributes to the radare2 reverse engineering framework, focusing on improving and adding features to the binary analysis capabilities. Their work includes addressing bugs in DEX file parsing, enhancing type information output and function analysis commands, and incorporating support for Swift calling conventions. Additionally, they refactored code related to file hash calculations and added support for Authentihash for PE files.
unixbinary-analysissecurityradare2forensics
abcSup/radare2
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset
Contributions:131 pushes, 29 branches in 7 months
unixnetwork-toolsunix-likeengineeringreverse-engineering
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