Colton Skees
Founder at Mazeworks Security
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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SeniorColton Skees is a founder and seasoned software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in program and static binary analysis, compilers (LLVM), and reverse engineering. He builds high-performance LLVM-based obfuscation and binary translation tooling while also tackling software deobfuscation across .NET, C/C++, and x86/x64 assembly. Previously he led native Windows application development and integrations for 3D intraoral scanning at Dandy, growing the Native Platform Engineering team from one to six. Colton combines deep low-level systems expertise with practical product delivery—authoring program analysis tooling to automate complex integration tasks. Based in Pennsylvania, he emphasizes measurable security and performance wins in shipping production software. An analytical problem-solver, he bridges research-grade compiler techniques with real-world Windows and cross-platform engineering.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (41)
static-analysis10
deobfuscation10
x8610
obfuscation10
vmprotect10
triton10
x86-6410
rebuild10
llvm-ir10
simplification10
program-analysis10
llvm9
toolchain9
reverse-engineering9
symbolic-execution9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Colton1skees/TritonTranslator
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
Standalone static version of Triton's x86/x64 translator
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 5 months
x86binary-translationdeobfuscationinstruction-semanticslifter
Colton1skees/VMPDevirt
May 2021 - Jun 2021
VMProtect devirtualizer(WIP)
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
vmprotect
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