Mak Kolybabi Email & Phone Number

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Try and rewrite everything in Go.• Convince coworkers to rewrite everything in Go.• Begrudgingly program in Python, but with mypy in full-asshole mode.• Write incredibly large comment blocks in source code explaining the historical and environmental context of a single IF statement.• Interview people to try and discover what kind of pie with which they most feel a kinship.• Attend any lunch-and-learn that involves cooking or baking.• Submit large pull requests and then solicit rubber stamp approvals before going on holiday.• Promoted to "Knight of Portscans" to obviate adhering to the company's network Acceptable Use Policy.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Wrote programs to scan the entire Internet for security issues.• Strategically broke things to prove that they were unsafe.• Added new and bulletproofed existing continuous integration.• Occasionally shouted "BIG DATA" while making jazz hands.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Performed penetration tests and code audits of desktop, mobile, and Web applications.• Assisted with writing statements of work and RFP responses.• Acted as an advisor to clients with security-related questions.• Maintained infrastructure to support testing activities.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Performed security-focused code audits and penetration tests.• Designed training courses for developers that taught information security principles.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Reviewed code from my team, prior to submitting to Quality Assurance.• Participated in interviews and assist in hiring decisions.• Planned long-term projects.• Performed the responsibilities of a Reverse Engineer.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Wrote and maintained NASL protocol libraries, notably for IPMI, JSON, SSH, and SSL.• Researched vulnerabilities, applications, and protocols.• Wrote more involved detection, enumeration, and vulnerability plugins.• Added features to the Nessus engine to enable new projects.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Wrote hundreds of Nessus plugins, all still in production.• Overhauled the entire SSL subsystem.• Added support to the SSH library for certicate-based login.• Designed and implemented a new workflow to transition the department from email-based code review and patch submission to using Git and an issue tracker.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Wrote plugins for Asterisk that perform real-time Fourier analysis for checking phone lines against milliwatt test lines.• Ported OpenSSH to QNX, creating an emulated 64-bit integer library to work around an old C89 compiler.• Uncovered a local exploit that allows users to cause a kernel panic QNX 4.• Wrote a render manager in Python to spread map tile generation across multiple servers.• Rewrote an OCX program to be a single-page web application in JavaScript.• Researched and deployed USB smart cards for login to a Cisco ASAs, Apache websites, and servers running SSH.• Convinced organization to start managing configuration and source code by storing it in a centralized, versioned repository.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Updated a compiler and runtime for a proprietary scripting language—created circa 1985—to adhere to modern coding standards including using consistent code formatting, unit testing, and version control.• Created several new constructs for the scripting language that offered an interface to speech recognition libraries for interactive voice response (automated telephone) applications.• Ported the compiler and runtime to an embedded device built atop a PowerPC core.• Wrote a unit testing framework that emulated the scripter’s runtime environment—Asterisk’s AGI interface—to ensure that language constructs operated as expected in a variety of situations.• Designed and implemented PostgreSQL stored procedures to be used on a 60 GB geographic information database for provincial road condition reporting services.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Set up three pairs of DNS servers with BIND to provide central and secure DNS functions for the public, internal desktops, and servers.• Assisted in the replacement and decommissioning of various parts of the network monitoring infrastructure.• Developed a shell script to produce a record of all files present on a hard drive suitable for importing into EnCase Forensics, reducing the amount of files that an analyst has to examine by 50% on average.• Assisted with numerous internal forensic investigations.• Researched IPv6, and delivered a presentation on its security features to the IPC.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Added scoping and regular expression support to BSMTrace, a new host-based intrusion detection system designed to minimize false positives.• Benchmarked alternate memory models for high-speed packet capture in FreeBSD.• Experimented with different synchronization methods for minimizing overhead in the FreeBSD kernel’s audit framework.• Developed a reporting system that created Atom feeds from intrusion detection sensors at multiple sites, aggregating them to provide reports on malicious and suspicious network traffic.• Assisted in the design and programming of BSDSVC, a service manager for Unix systems.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Automated with GreaseMonkey and AutoHotKey many aspects of the web-based application we did all our work in.• Reduced the number of people required to perform a specific task by half, freeing myself for additional responsibilities.• Moved the department around the building a few times—resolving the technical issues that arose—following a fire in the electrical closet that made our floor temporarily uninhabitable.• Discovered a security flaw in the organization’s main web-based application, which allowed impersonating other users, and assisted in debugging it.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Developed reporting for a pre-existing Microsoft Access database of surgeries that measured success rates in various ways, turning a job that took three weeks to do manually into the push of a button

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Gave tutorials and advice to customers on how to use products.• Acted as a generalist to cover all departments.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science