About Me/Resume

· 2026-09-25 ·

Achievements

Placed 1st in DEFCON 30’s AppSecVillage CTF
Placed 1st in DEFCON 33’s & 34’s Embedded Systems Village CTF
Published 21 CVEs/ZDI Disclosures
- CVE-2022-4271
- CVE-2023-24261, 31472, 31475, 31476, 31478, 33620, 33621
- CVE-2024-40083, 40084, 40085, 40086, 40087, 40088, 40089, 40090, 40091
- ZDI-26-564, ZDI-CAN-28537, ZDI-CAN-28538
- CVE-2026-3105
Presented at IoT Village during DEFCON 32
Former member of Project Sekai, one of the top 10 CTF teams in the world
Former member of US Cyber Team, which represented the United States in ICC 2023 and 2024
Individually placed 1st in Utah-wide SAINTCON Hacker’s Challenge 2023
Placed 1st in National Cyber League’s Team Game Fall 2025
Participated in 120+ CTFs and hosted 10 CTFs since 2020

Cyber Engineer, Zetier Inc (Jun 2026 – Present)
Instructor and Research Assistant, BYU College of Engineering (Apr 2023 – Apr 2026)
- Designed and taught curriculum for a 500-level course at BYU titled “Vulnerabilities, Exploitation, and Reverse Engineering”
- Designed and taught curriculum for a 400-level practical embedded hacking course at BYU
- Created and deployed 75 advanced CTF problems for university course
- Led a team of 4 students in discovering 9 unique zero days in Vilo home routers
Security Engineer and Engineering Team Lead, BYU Life Sciences IT (Aug 2021 – Apr 2023)
- Designed, implemented, and containerized secure infrastructure of the largest college on campus
- Resolved dozens of security threats and incidents across 1000+ servers, labs, and work computers
- Led a team of 4 student engineers in brainstorming, planning, and accomplishing 40+ projects
- Documented the processes of creating and maintaining 25+ different projects and services

Brigham Young University, Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering (Sept 2024 - Apr 2026)
- Masters in Cybersecurity
- Thesis Title: “Stack-Based Exploit Development Techniques in MIPS Architectures” (link)
Brigham Young University, Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering (Jun 2020 - Apr 2024)
- Bachelor in Cybersecurity (GPA of 3.59)
- Academic, Full-Tuition Scholarship

General – Linux, Embedded Systems, Networking, Virtualization/Docker/Kubernetes
Programming/Scripting (Expert/Proficient) – Python, C, x86, MIPS, Bash, C++, JavaScript, PHP, SQL
Reverse Engineering/Pwn – Ghidra, GDB, x64dbg, Python pwntools, QEMU, stack- & heap-based pwn
Embedded Hacking – Microcontroller Binary Exploitation, Timing Attacks, Fuzzing, Fault Injection