CO‑FOUNDER, CEO
ZDResearch LLC
Feb 2012 - May 2023 (11 years 4 months)
• Direct a 12‑person, fully‑remote team of security researchers and engineers spanning multiple continents.
• Founded and led a bug‑bounty team ranked #5 globally on HackerOne, earning around $500K over 3 years from programs including Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, TikTok, Twitter, the U.S. Department of Defense, USPS, Expedia, Comcast, and Hostinger.
• Built phpscan.io, a SaaS PHP malware scanner combining static taint analysis, signature and heuristic detection, and sandboxed dynamic execution to flag obfuscated webshells and backdoors across large PHP codebases.
• Drove development of open‑source security tools (OWASP Nettacker, OWASP ZSC) and the ZDResearch Hybrid Taint Inference Firewall.
• Built Exdemy.com, an advanced training platf