Evie Fogarty

Junior software engineer with contract experience shipping full-stack features in Go and Next.js on a live platform, alongside independent systems and security research in Rust and C++. Discovered and responsibly disclosed CVE-2026-51585, a critical Windows driver vulnerability, with a fully documented reverse-engineering methodology. Comfortable owning problems from investigation through to production.

Independent Systems & Security Research - Independent Research

(2026-04 - 2026-06)

• Discovered and responsibly disclosed a critical unvalidated IOCTL handler in the Realtek PCIe GbE Windows driver enabling arbitrary physical memory access; assigned CVE-2026-51585.
• Documented a bypass of two static driver security guards through state manipulation and registry-value analysis to reach the vulnerable memory-mapping code path.
• Built a reproducible C++23 proof-of-concept with a fully annotated IDA Pro methodology covering guard checks, MDL allocation patterns, and memory-mapping call chains.
• Reverse-engineered NIC descriptor-ring behaviour in hardware loopback mode, confirming the memory primitive across multiple affected Realtek adapter models.

Frontend & Backend Contractor - Socl.gg

(2025-01 - 2025-04)

• Implemented a production OAuth2 authorisation-code flow in Go supporting GitHub, Discord, and Google identity providers, with secure token exchange and provider-agnostic session management.
• Unified heterogeneous identity-provider schemas into a single permission model with consistent access mapping across providers.
• Built a real-time profile editor in Next.js and TypeScript with optimistic UI updates and server-side conflict resolution for concurrent edits.
• Delivered the complete authentication system within the first four weeks of a three-month contract, then continued shipping full-stack features for the remainder of the engagement.

BSc - Computer Science and Information Technology - University of Galway (2025-09 - 2029-05)