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Discovered and responsibly disclosed a Fortinet FortiGate firewall low/medium severity improper certificate validation vulnerability that became CVE-2021-41019
This vulnerability is a continuation of CVE-2019-5591, which is one of the top routinely exploited vulnerabilities of 2021 according to CISA
Fortinet acknowledges me in their official advisory FG-IR-21-974
OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT (2019)
Contributed to the open source firewall project OPNsense, which started as a fork of pfSense
Used Git and GitHub to code collaboratively using modern software development methodologies
Discovered and responsibly disclosed Fortinet FortiGate firewall medium severity bypass vulnerability
This vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass FortiGate’s DNS filter by using DNS over HTTPS (DoH)
Credit for the disclosure received in Fortinet KB article FD45370
PATCHBOX (2016)
PatchBox, endorsed by the National Psoriasis Foundation, was a subscription box service my co-founder and I created to provide monthly non-prescription relief for psoriasis
My co-founder and I bootstrapped PatchBox and were responsible for all aspects of the business until ultimately selling it via online auction
Although the website is now gone, our archived interview with the National Psoriasis Foundation can be read here
TECHNICAL INSTRUCTOR (2015)
Hired by the now-defunct ITT Technical Institute as an Adjunct Instructor, I taught a software development course on social networking on Saturdays for one semester
I gave lectures, facilitated labs, conducted discussions, and assigned and graded assignments
Students’ final project was building and hosting a blog using the WordPress platform that was required to interact with various social network APIs