Mathew Solnik Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, CA, US

OffCell's mission is to uncover emerging threats and challenges in the rapidly evolving and interconnected world of cellular technology.

Fort Worth, Texas, US

Co-founded a blockchain startup. Successfully built out the code base to run over 3 million transactions a second.

Lane Cove, New South Wales, AU

Denver, CO, US

• As part of the Applied Research (AR) team I conducted and lead long-term research and pen-testing projects. Delivered on advanced engagements that standard security teams would not be experienced enough to handle
• Performed vulnerability research, reverse engineering, code/design review, threat analysis, mitigation design as well as ongoing security architecture review for clients
• Submitted and was awarded by DARPA/AFRL the largest research grant in Accuvant history - “A Vulnerability Analysis of Embedded & Cloud-Based Agricultural Control Systems”
• Managed client relationships in addition to providing support to other principles when dealing with certain “kid glove” clients. Was personally requested to tech lead by Accuvant’s largest billing client - in order for.
• Championed an internal mentoring program for junior non-AR consultants - “Research for non-researchers”. The goal was to provide training to juniors in order to build the next generation of great researchers.

San Francisco, California, US

• Designed and developed cloud based static and dynamic mobile app analysis engines for Android and iOS. Using behavioral analysis, static rules and hashes we automated detection of many privacy and security risks
• Completely designed and built a self-contained “virtual appliance” version of Appthority’s product specifically for Department of Defense and military usage
• Rebuilt entire cloud infrastructure focusing on security and scalability (Ubuntu, AWS, Rails, Mongo, Redis)
• Worked directly with Fortune 100 customers, and cellular providers to drive external implementation and internal feature development

San Francisco, CA, US

• Conducted white and black box penetration testing for many Fortune 500 companies on web applications, financial payment systems, social networks, online auctions/marketplaces, banking applications, cloud based.
• Lead testing teams and performed standard and “red-team” network security audits on some of the most secure networks and facilities in the United States
• Assessed network architecture and worked with clients to obtain the right balance of security and usability

Fountain Valley, CA, US

• Researched, designed, and built next generation products. Focused on integration, threat modeling, and secure design.
• Penetration testing of all aspects of the product – hardware, software, and network layers.
• Worked on the design and building of Ironkey’s secured virtualization solution (“Trusted Access” – originally a proof of concept idea that I created).
• Worked with multiple partners to help scope and design one-off solutions which use the product.
• Wrote applications used for automated testing of quality and security of the product.

• In charge of designing, securing, and administering full IT infrastructure including constant auditing and penetration testing of source code, systems, and network.
• Built whole production trading environment from the ground up (operating systems, servers, and network equipment) with extremely low latency at its core.
• Designed and built a custom real-time Linux distribution for use in high frequency equities trading with microsecond accuracy.
• Designed a custom monitoring application that would notify us of any downtime or high market latencies.
• Worked with traders and development staff in order to optimize systems for better market performance.
• Worked with raw market data and feeds parsing (FIX) – helped design and setup a data processing solution that had 30 microsecond socket to socket time.

Houston, Texas, US

• Investigated and resolved incoming critical issues for the AppManager and Security Manager Product suites.
• Supported AM/SM on multiple Operating Systems and Architectures.
• Authored knowledge base articles for all issues not already documented, in order toreduce troubleshooting and research time of future support requests.
• Collaborated with the development team to improve software quality and turn aroundtime for updates.

Houston, Texas, US

• Responsible for administering internal network and multiple external servers with a focus on stability, high availability and security.
• Handled all tech support - including hardware, software and phone issues.
• Automated day-to-day UNIX Administration tasks.
• Deployed major updates in a production environment.
• Designed and implemented an office wide open-source single sign-on solution with support for Linux, Windows and Mac clients.