Bobby Gould Resume

OBJECTIVE

To pursue career opportunities in vulnerability research and exploit development

EDUCATION

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX August 2019

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Minor in Cyber Security

WORK EXPERIENCE

Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, Austin, TX August 2020 - Present

Software Engineer and Vulnerability Researcher

Automating software vulnerability analysis with WinDbg to classify and determine exploitability of software bugs, resulting in a 90% reduction in analyst workload
Architecting fuzzing platform to manage and process the output of up to 350 fuzzing nodes
Designing a custom fuzzing mutation engine to improve finding of software vulnerabilities at-scale
Utilizing WinDbg Time Travel Debugging to perform root cause analysis of crashes
Reverse engineered proprietary, closed-source file format resulting in a 100x improvement in fuzzing efficiency
Found CVE-2024-27323 and created proof-of-concept MITM exploit
Leveraged Ghidra Server to centralize binary analysis workflows
Collaborated on algorithm for determining exploitable paths from non-exploitable crashes
Maintained Ruby on Rails application built to process software vulnerability reports
Developed system for tagging software vulnerabilities to augment data processing capabilities
Implemented solution for securely sharing software vulnerability proof-of-concepts with enterprise product vendors

Trend Micro, Austin, TX May 2019 - August 2020

Software Engineer

Utilized Java Spring to create AWS hosted management tool for an Intrusion Prevention System
Automated management tool configurations, resulting in a 13% decrease in setup time for consumers

CVES

Adobe Acrobat	CVE-2024-30310, CVE-2024-34101
Autodesk AutoCAD	CVE-2024-23120, CVE-2024-23147, CVE-2024-23157
PDF-XChange Editor	CVE-2024-27323
Delta Electronics CNCSoft-G2	CVE-2024-39880, CVE-2024-39881, CVE-2024-39882, CVE-2024-39883, CVE-2024-47962, CVE-2024-47963, CVE-2024-47964, CVE-2024-47965, CVE-2024-47966

SKILLS

Languages – Python, x64/x86 Assembly, C/C++, C#, Ruby, JavaScript, Java, HTML

Databases – PostgreSQL, MySQL

Disassemblers – Binary Ninja, Ghidra

Technologies – WinDbg, AWS, Git, Python Django, Wireshark, React, Debian Server