Rares N. - Labs Architect

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Experience

Jul 2025 - Present

5 months

Continued tenure from Secureworks.
Design and implement demo environments: Fully scalable, automatic deployments in cloud infrastructure.
Work on end to end attack scenarios which showcase the product.
Automate deployments and cleanup of resources in cloud infrastructures.

Nov 2021 - Jun 2025

3 years 8 months

Design and implement demo environments: Fully scalable, automatic deployments in cloud infrastructure.
Work on attack scenarios which showcase the product.
Automate deployments and cleanup of resources in cloud infrastructures.
Develop ad-hoc API integrations as per customer needs.
Key programming languages/technologies: AWS, Terraform, Python, GraphQL, Various offensive security tools.

Oct 2019 - Feb 2021

1 year 5 months

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Taught hands-on techniques and methodology to perform penetration tests on vulnerable systems.

Jan 2017 - Nov 2021

4 years 11 months

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Collect and analyze different exploit techniques and attack vectors.
Reproduce them in controlled environments and test it against various protection technologies: Hypervisor Memory introspection.
Design attack scenarios from initial access to data exfiltration and analyze the attack's behavior.
Study and implement AWS cloud-based attack techniques.
Key programming languages/technologies: C, Intel x86 CPU Architecture, Windows Internals, C++ (small personal tests/projects), Assembly, IDA, WinDBG, MITRE Attack Framework, AWS, Python, Docker, Kubernetes.

Feb 2016 - Aug 2017

1 year 7 months

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Document on binary exploit techniques.
Implement or extend and improve already existing protection mechanisms in the Hypervisor Memory Introspection engine.
Work was focused around Windows attacks.

Jul 2013 - Sep 2013

3 months

Brașov, Romania

Familiarize with OOP concepts and Java.
Implement in Java a socket-based communication program with an ECU, using the AUTOSAR architecture and specifications.