Kevin Backhouse is a member of GitHub Security Lab, where he focuses on finding vulnerabilities in open source projects. He has been doing security research since 2017. His current focus is on helping to improve the security of his favorite operating system - Ubuntu. Prior to that, he spent most of his career working as a compiler engineer. His compiler experience includes working on MATLAB Coder and the ARM C/C++ compiler. More recently, he implemented the range analysis and global value numbering CodeQL libraries for C/C++. He continues to be interested in using program analysis to improve software security.
