Rares Nedelcu

Senior Lab Architect

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Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Experience

Jul 2025 - Present
7 months

Senior Lab Architect

Sophos

  • 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

Sr. Systems Engineer

Secureworks

  • 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

Associate Teacher

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

  • Taught hands-on techniques and methodology to perform penetration tests on vulnerable systems.
Jan 2017 - Nov 2021
4 years 11 months
Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Security Researcher

Bitdefender

  • 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

Software Engineer

Bitdefender

  • Document on binary exploit techniques.
  • Implement or extend and improve existing protection mechanisms in the Hypervisor Memory Introspection engine.
  • Work was focused around Windows attacks.
Jul 2013 - Sep 2013
3 months
Brașov, Romania

Junior Software Engineer

SC Elektrobit SRL

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

Skills

  • Penetration Testing Tool Proficiency In Burp Suite
  • Metasploit
  • Nmap
  • Kali Linux
  • Johntheripper
  • Dirbuster
  • Gobuster
  • Nikto
  • Dirb
  • Hashcat
  • Metasploit Ldap
  • Assembly (Computer Programming)
  • Reverse Engineering (Idapro, Ghidra, Gdb And Other Tools)
  • Software Reversing (X86, X64, Msil, Ollydbg, Windbg, Ida)
  • Android (Mobile Operating Systems)
  • Operating Systems Use
  • Object-oriented Programming
  • C++
  • Python (Computer Programming)
  • Ruby (Computer Programming)
  • Java (Computer Programming)

Languages

Romanian
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Intermediate
French
Elementary

Education

Sep 2017 - Jul 2019

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

Information and Computing Systems Security · Information and Computing Systems Security · Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Sep 2014 - Jul 2017

Universitatea "Babeș-Bolyai"

Computer Scientist · Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Certifications & licenses

Offensive Security Certified Professional

Offensive Security

Essentials Badge

PentesterLab

Pcap Badge

PentesterLab

White Badge

PentesterLab

Oracle Certificate Of Associate Java Se 8

Oracle

Programming Mobile Applications For Android Handheld Systems: Part 1

Coursera

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