Robert "Bobby" Gould
2415 Clark St APT 421 • Dallas, TX 75204 • 972-989-7230 • bgould96@gmail.com
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
A driven Vulnerability Researcher with 6+ years of hands-on experience in vulnerability research, bug bounty program operations, and software engineering. Proven ability to validate complex vulnerability submissions, perform root cause analysis, and build systems to automate zero day workflows. Possesses exceptional communication skills to articulate technical risks and a passion for mentoring and engaging with the global security research community.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, Austin, TX August 2020 - Present
Vulnerability Researcher and Software Engineer
  • Published CVE-2025-20281, an unauthenticated remote code execution exploit as root (CVSS 10)
  • Analyze and validate external zero day submissions to determine root cause and severity
  • Organize detailed technical reports, distilling researcher findings into actionable intelligence for internal teams
  • Automate software vulnerability analysis with WinDbg, resulting in a 90% reduction in workload
  • Collaborate with external researchers to coordinate vulnerability disclosure and foster community engagement
  • Reverse engineered proprietary, closed-source file format resulting in a 100x fuzzing improvement
  • Architected Python based fuzzing platform to triage the output of up to 350 fuzzing nodes
  • Designed a custom fuzzing mutation engine to improve finding of software vulnerabilities at-scale
  • Leveraged Ghidra Server to centralize binary analysis workflows
  • Collaborated on algorithm for determining exploitable paths from non-exploitable crashes
  • Maintained Ruby on Rails application to process more than 50 bug bounty reports per week
  • Implemented solution for securely sharing vulnerability proof-of-concepts with 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
HIGHLIGHTED CVES
Adobe AcrobatCVE-2024-30310, CVE-2024-34101
Autodesk AutoCADCVE-2024-23120, CVE-2024-23147, CVE-2024-23157
PDF-XChange EditorCVE-2024-27323
CNCSoft-G2CVE-2024-39880, CVE-2024-39881, CVE-2024-39882, CVE-2024-39883
EDUCATION
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX August 2019
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Minor in Cyber Security
SKILLS
Languages – Python, x64/x86 Assembly, C/C++, C#, Ruby, JavaScript, Java, HTML
Databases – PostgreSQL, MySQL
Reverse Engineering Tools – Binary Ninja, Fernflower, JD-GUI, dnspy, Ghidra
Technologies – WinDbg, AWS, Git, Python Django, Wireshark, React, Debian Server