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.

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.

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