Edd Barrett
Vulnerability Researcher at Interrupt Labs
Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEdd Barrett is a vulnerability researcher and computer scientist with 15 years of experience blending academic research and hands-on systems development. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has worked extensively on language runtimes and meta-tracing through a decade-long research role at King’s College London and the COOLER project. Now splitting his time between research fellow duties and vulnerability work at Interrupt Labs, he brings deep reverse-engineering, low-level systems and open-source pedigree—he’s been an OpenBSD porting developer since 2009. Comfortable across UNIX administration, embedded control systems, web development and security research, he’s known for turning rigorous academic insight into practical tooling and exploit-mitigation strategies. Based in Canterbury, UK, he combines long-term stewardship of critical open-source infrastructure with active vulnerability discovery.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Computing, BSc Hons, Computing at Bournemouth UniversityPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Kent
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Github Skills (200)
benchmark10
lexer10
command-line-interface10
readonly10
vim10
specification10
service-manager10
command-line-tool10
swi-prolog10
nvim10
syncthing10
unix10
matrix10
continuous-testing10
intel10
Programming languages (34)
Github contributions (5)
vext01/passout
Apr 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:109 commits, 13 PRs, 33 pushes in 3 years 2 months
passworduberpassword-managergnupg
softdevteam/krun
Jun 2015 - Jul 2021
High fidelity benchmark runner
Contributions:2 reviews, 486 commits, 254 PRs in 6 years 2 months
high-fidelitybenchmarkinglinuxbenchmarkbenchmarks
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