About · Team
We publish our tools, share our methods, and advance the field with every engagement. The best way to protect our clients is to raise the security bar for everyone.
As a cybersecurity research and consulting firm, we serve clients in the defense, tech, finance, and blockchain industries. Our teams help with their most difficult security challenges by designing and building new technology, researching new techniques to advance the state of practice, and reviewing the security of the latest available technology products before they hit the market.
Research model
Founding Story
Trail of Bits launched in 2012 because the security industry had a knowledge-hoarding problem. Firms competed on secrecy while the same vulnerabilities showed up everywhere. We took the opposite approach: solve the problem once, build a tool, release it publicly. Thirteen years later, we maintain 100+ open-source projects used by security teams worldwide.
Core Principles
"Publish everything" means exactly that. Our blog posts become industry reference material. Our internal tools become community standards. When we discover a new attack pattern, we don't just report it. We build automated detection and put it in everyone's hands. This isn't a marketing strategy. It's how we think security should work.
What Makes Us Different
Typical consultancies write reports. We eliminate problems at scale. When you hire Trail of Bits, you're not buying hours of someone's time; you're buying access to research that shapes where the industry goes next. Multi-year DARPA programs. AI Cyber Challenge finalists. Vulnerabilities disclosed in systems that dedicated security teams couldn't protect. Our clients get the benefit of work that pushes the entire field forward.
Top talent
As a cybersecurity research and consulting firm, we serve clients in the defense, tech, finance, and blockchain industries. Our teams help with their most difficult security challenges by designing and building new technology, researching new techniques to advance the state of practice, and reviewing the security of the latest available technology products before they hit the market.
"Our team is our most important area of investment. We take great pride in only accepting work we find interesting, engaging, and challenging."
Dan Guido, Co-Founder & CEO
Team directory
The source page uses filters and repeated tags. This version keeps the entire team in one scanable view and reduces each person to the details that matter most: name, role, primary function, and any cross-team scope.
Listed people
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Ordered by primary function, then alphabetically within each function.
Leadership
Co-CEO
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Chief Scientist, Research
Also Engineering
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Engineering Director
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Head of Talent
Also Operations
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CEO
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Cryptography Engineering Director
Also Engineering
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Head of Research & Engineering
Also Engineering
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Sales Manager II
Operations
Project Manager
Operations
Program Manager
Operations
Contract Support Specialist
Operations
Staff Project Manager
Engineering
Staff Security Engineer
Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
Engineering
Principal Security Engineer
Engineering
Senior Security Engineer
Engineering
Staff Security Engineer
Engineering
Senior Security Engineer
Engineering
Senior Security Engineer
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Principal Security Engineer
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Staff Security Engineer
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Senior Security Engineer
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Principal Security Engineer
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Principal Security Engineer
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Principal Security Engineer
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Security Engineer
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Principal Security Engineer
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Senior Security Engineer
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Principal Security Engineer
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Principal Security Engineer
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Principal Security Engineer
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Senior Security Engineer
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Senior Security Engineer
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Security Engineer II
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Principal Security Engineer
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Senior Security Engineer
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Security Engineer II
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Security Engineer
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Principal Security Engineer
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Senior Security Engineer
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Principal Security Engineer
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Senior Security Engineer
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Senior Security Engineer
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Principal Security Engineer
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Security Engineer II
Trail of Bits timeline
The source page treats these as company history. On a team page, they explain why the roster is organized around published tools, research programs, and public artifacts instead of generic practice lines.
2012
We set out to publish security research and tooling to raise the bar for everyone.
2015
Competed to build autonomous vulnerability discovery systems as part of DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge.
2016
Expanded osquery to support cross-platform endpoint security monitoring.
2017
Open-sourced Manticore, a symbolic execution framework used in DARPA research.
2018
Released Slither and Echidna, now industry-standard tools for smart contract security.
2019
Launched iVerify and co-founded the osquery Foundation with the Linux Foundation.
2024
Selected for AIxCC and awarded $1M to build an AI-powered Cyber Reasoning System.
2025
Won second place at DEF CON 33 and open-sourced Buttercup.
Work on problems that matter
Join Trail of Bits
Our combination of novel research and practical solutions reduces the security risks that our clients face from emerging technologies. Our work helps drive the security industry and the public understanding of the technology underlying our world.
Join a team of experts
Tired of being the smartest person in the room? Trail of Bits is full of research engineers who analyze security issues and develop open-source solutions every day.
Work on problems that matter
From a secure blockchain to DARPA initiatives, the teams at Trail of Bits have worked with nearly every product that relies on a secure foundation.
Remote first, always
With RTOs abound, Trail of Bits believes that the best work is done where people work best. Annual off-sites offer opportunities for team building and learning.