Gavin Wyant
Incoming M.S. student at Carnegie Mellon's Information Networking Institute, starting Fall 2026. Cybersecurity intern at Motorola Solutions until then.
I finished my B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh in December 2025. Outside of work I spend most of my time on CTFs and going deeper into applied cryptography, reverse engineering, and web exploitation.
Currently — interning at Motorola, building a userspace firewall, and grinding CTFs.
Selected work
Security
Networking
- 2025
Multi-Hop Drone Forwarding
An ns-3 simulation that decides when to deploy a relay drone between a moving user and a fixed access point, based on packet loss.
C++ns-3Bashns-3wirelessrelay
- 2025
WireGuppy
A Wireshark-style packet sniffer in C that reads raw traffic from /dev/bpf0 on macOS and walks the Ethernet, IP, and transport layers by hand.
CBerkeley Packet FiltermacOSbpfpacket-sniffingmacos
Systems
- 2025
Database Engine
A persistent CLI SQLite clone in C, written to internalize how databases actually lay out memory and files.
CSQLitedatabasessqlitememoryfile-format
- 2025
new_nano
A fork of GNU nano that adds keyboard-driven autocomplete — Ctrl+Space opens a suggestion window, arrow keys pick a word.
CncursesGNU Autotoolstext-editorncursesautocomplete