Mark Paxson
Senior Cyber Engineer at Nightwing
Melbourne, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Paxson is a Senior Cyber Engineer and vulnerability researcher with 11 years of hands-on experience in software development, reverse engineering, and offensive security operations. Based in Melbourne, Florida, he leads vulnerability analysis at Nightwing while drawing on a deep CTF background—binary exploitation, ROP, shellcode, and cross-architecture reversing (Intel/ARM)—gained as a traveling member of an offensive security team. His internships at Raytheon and work on hypervisor reverse engineering, Windows kernel development, and IDA/IDAPython automation demonstrate a focus on high-impact, low-level security research. Mark also brings practical full-stack and scripting experience from earlier roles building production systems and security-conscious applications, and he started honing infrastructure and ops skills managing large community gaming servers in high school. He combines rigorous academic performance in Computer Science with a persistent habit of practicing complex attack scenarios for 12+ hours weekly, making him both a disciplined researcher and a pragmatic engineer.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Atlantic Coast High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.912, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.912 at University of Central Florida
English
Github Skills (106)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kettleofketchup/DraftForge
Jan 2026 - Jun 2026
Contributions:7 reviews, 49 PRs, 448 pushes in 5 months
mpaxson/ctf
Feb 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:72 commits, 66 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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