Brayden Borges

CCDC Captain and Linux Lead; CTF Club and DSU Computer Club officer. Focus: reverse engineering, vulnerability research, network security, cryptography, and operating systems.

• Developed 3-stage AI audit workflows for smart-contract and protocol vulnerability research.
• Reduced math-heavy bug classes to constraint-solving problems for repeatable discovery.
• Connected source review, triage evidence, and exploit validation into reproducible workflows.
• Designed prompts and review loops to improve signal quality over one-shot LLM output.

• Monitored thousands of endpoints with Cisco Secure Endpoint and Darktrace AI.
• Investigated security events, documented response paths, and escalated confirmed threats.
• Cut phishing triage time by 60% by integrating Cisco Secure Endpoint, Darktrace, and VirusTotal.
• Reviewed endpoint telemetry and emerging threats during weekly security reviews.

• Founded and lead SPL, a 501(c)(3) competitive cybersecurity team ranked top-3 in the U.S. in 2025.
• Recruit category specialists, set practice priorities, and coordinate live finals preparation.
• Led team strategy for DEF CON Finals, Google CTF, HITCON, CSAW Finals, and PlaidCTF.

• Implemented category-specialized agents for reversing, pwn, web, crypto, forensics, and misc.
• Integrated Docker execution, JSON ingestion, RAG, flag validation, and agent handoffs.
• Benchmarked 46/50 NYU CTFTiny solves and 44/50 at CSAW.

• Developed a 19-stage audit pipeline for local and GitHub targets.
• Implemented static scan, invariant analysis, reachability triage, reporting, PoC generation, and patching.
• Added CFG/import analysis, async Semgrep verification, CVE eval shards, and resumable session logs.

• Automated Bash execution across hundreds of hosts over SSH.
• Extended Falco EDR workflows with custom frontend and response tooling.
• Led Linux hardening, incident response, service recovery, and blue-team operations.