Capabilities Statement

This capabilities overview highlights the technical areas, research strengths, and solution-development expertise I provide across cybersecurity, firmware analysis, reverse engineering, and automated program-analysis pipelines. My work spans research prototyping, scalable system design, AI integration, and advanced binary and firmware workflows supporting national-security missions and complex embedded systems.

Core Competencies

Firmware & Embedded Systems Security

  • Firmware decomposition, filesystem reconstruction, metadata extraction

  • Rehosting and emulation for embedded systems

  • Capability identification, SBOM/FBOM production, component mapping

Reverse Engineering & Binary Analysis

  • Static and dynamic analysis, control-/data-flow extraction

  • Intermediate representation engineering (GTIRB, p-code, lifted IRs)

  • Function/database similarity, structural and semantic matching

AI/ML for Program Analysis

  • LLM-driven reasoning for automated triage, annotation, and reporting

  • Vector-based similarity and component-identification models

  • Policy inference and automated component-level behavior modeling

Automated & Scalable Workflow Design

  • Microservice-based architectures for large-scale analysis

  • Containerized pipelines, orchestration frameworks, and backend APIs

  • Automated multi-step analysis paths for diverse firmware sets

Digital Twin & Rehosting Architectures

  • High-fidelity emulation for firmware experimentation and introspection

  • Peripheral/hardware modeling and hybrid analysis workflows

  • Integration of execution engines into multi-tool analysis systems

Differentiators

  • Deep expertise in firmware and embedded-system analysis across architectures

  • Ability to combine RE, static/dynamic analysis, and AI/ML into unified platforms

  • End-to-end system design: research concepts → architectures → prototypes → demos

  • Experience leading complex multi-team research programs

  • Strong technical writing, proposal strategy, and customer-facing communication

  • Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality analysis outputs at scale

Past Work & Experience Domains

  • Large-scale firmware and binary corpora analysis

  • ICS/OT systems, embedded controllers, and cyber-physical devices

  • Automated analysis tools for national-security research

  • Rehosting and execution environments for testing and vulnerability discovery

  • Programming languages, compilers, HPC systems, distributed pipelines

  • Applied AI/ML frameworks integrated into security workflows

Engagement Model

I support research-focused, technical-prototype, and advisory engagements including:

  • Architecture and pipeline design

  • Vulnerability research and firmware analysis support

  • AI/ML model integration into binary-analysis workflows

  • Digital-twin/rehosting capability development

  • Technical evaluation, strategy, and roadmap definition

  • Proposal development and R&D capture

Contact information and a consulting inquiry form are available on the Contact page.