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Not rubber stamps.

Syed Faraz Abrar is a security engineer at Zellic. In the past, he has worked as a vulnerability researcher at Dataflow Security, focusing on identifying and exploiting security vulnerabilities in Google Chrome, Signal, and Telegram. He is also an ex-CTF player, having participated in some of the worlds toughest CTF competitions as a member of team Super Guesser. In his free time, Faraz enjoys bouldering and playing the guitar.

With previous roles as a vulnerability researcher at Dataflow Security and Exodus Intelligence, Rajvardhan has extensive experience in identifying and addressing security vulnerabilities in even the most complex systems. He is also a skilled CTF player and has qualified for top-tier competitions like DEF CON and Google CTF as a member of the team Super Guesser.

Before Web3, Katerina worked as a security researcher and focused on IoT devices and Wi-Fi routers. At that time, she played CTFs and participated in bug bounty. Also, she was engaged in audits of smart contracts in the company Peppersec. She has a master’s degree in information security from Maritime State University in Russia.

For over 10 years, William worked as a software developer before moving into the security industry. During this time, he enjoyed playing CTFs with Perfect Blue and working as a bug bounty hunter focusing on source code review, finding numerous critical issues. He has a Computer Science degree from the University of Tasmania.

Filippo has worked as a security auditor at Doyensec, a respected small web security firm, and as a developer for rev.ng, a start-up with expertise in decompilers, binary analysis, emulators, and compilers. He graduated at Politecnico di Milano with a degree in computer science and engineering.

Before Web3, Aaron was a security engineer at DeepSurface Security, where he developed tools and researched Windows idiosyncrasies. He was previously a penetration tester at Summit Security Group and found and fixed many critical bugs in elections systems. He has a background in CTF and bug bounty.

Previously, Jacob has worked at Apple, doing offensive security research focusing on finding zero days in remote attack surfaces. He has been a CTF competitor and bug bounty contributor since high school.

Before Zellic, Aaron worked as an application penetration tester for Web2 apps. He has competed in CTF with his school’s team, OSUSEC, and has been to competitions like DEF CON CTF, which has been described as the “Olympics of Hacking”.

For years, Daniel has been active in the CTF and bug bounty communities, qualifying for contests like DEF CON CTF, which has been described as the “Olympics of Hacking”. Prior to Zellic, he worked on program analysis tooling for supply chain security. He has conducted academic research in blockchain security at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In his free time, Daniel enjoys contributing to open-source software.

Before entering the Web3 world, Ayaz was a security researcher, mainly focusing on Android and Linux kernel vulnerabilities, and creator of the i3wm Windows port win3wm. He has discovered Linux kernel 0days in the past. In his free time, he also studies computer science at the University of Lugano.

Ulrich has a decade of experience from the field of embedded software testing, where finding every bug pre-release is paramount. He has also spent years working in QA, doing code reviews and hardware fuzzing. He has always been interested in security, and during this time he discovered CTFs, joined up with some Norwegian teams, and finally joining Perfect Blue. Ulrich has a master's degree in Cybernetics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Prior to Zellic, Vlad worked as a security analyst for Deloitte, where he performed penetration testing and code review. He has also been a part of the top CTF team HTsP since high school. He is a computer science graduate from the University of Groningen.

Varun has worked as a deep learning practitioner, having deployed real-time object detection models and CNNs on healthcare data. He has been involved in the cryptocurrency industry since 2017 and has graduated with a degree in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Junyi comes from an algorithms background and has taken part in national finals in algorithms competitions. He is an avid CTF player and recently represented his country at the European Cyber Security Challenge.

Rose Singletary is a Software Engineer for Zellic with a background in reverse-engineering, security, and software analysis. Prior to joining Zellic, she served as a software engineer for a popular reverse engineering tool at Vector35 and conducted security research at Draper Labs. Rose is passionate about technology and in her free time, she enjoys playing, reversing, or hacking video games.

Alex Vanderpot is an experienced Full Stack software engineer with a versatile skillset in various technologies. He has strong experience in developing and securing software systems, including vulnerability assessment and static code analysis. His expertise extends beyond software development to hardware design and embedded systems development.

Bilal Tariq is a software engineer working on internal program analysis tools at Zellic. After studying computer science and completing a dissertation on static analysis of probabilistic programs at the University College London he worked on backend banking systems at Barclays. In his spare time, he enjoys working on his cars and embedded electronics.

As an Engagement Manager at Zellic, Chad McDonald works closely with clients to provide top-notch security solutions. Prior to joining Zellic as a security engineer, he honed his skills in bug bounties, crafted boutique guitar amplifiers, and toured extensively as a musician. In his free time, Chad enjoys creating music, biking, and camping with his family.

Kaushik Swaminathan leads business development and growth at Zellic. Previously, he managed early-stage investments for Coinhako, Singapore’s largest regulated crypto exchange. Kaushik has also spent time at Avanti Finance and New York Times. He graduated from Yale-NUS College with concentrations in global affairs and philosophy.

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Oliver originally studied physics, where he loved solving mechanics problems and quickly found himself immersed in quantum entanglements. In graduate school, he parlayed those studies to the fields of game theory and derivatives pricing. After nearly a decade building complex financial engineering models of collateral exchanges in derivative portfolios, he joined Zellic. After completing several high profile audits at Zellic, he now spends most of his time talking to clients about their projects and connecting them with the best security engineers in the world at Zellic!

Grace has worked in the publishing industry as an editor of magazines, directories, technical documentation, and other publications across the US and Canada. She has also copy edited books, reports, and dissertations from a variety of academic institutions and departments and holds both a graduate certificate in Editing from the University of Chicago and a BA in Communication and Media Studies from the University of Calgary.