David Bloom

Current

• Volunteer tester at Opera Software
• Web security researcher (Self-employed)

Past

• Software Engineer (intern) at Google
• Core QA at Opera Software
• Software Engineer (intern) at Google

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Education

• San Jose State University
• St. Ambrose University

Recommended

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Connections

44 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Opera
• Secunia(vulnerability reports)

David Bloom’s Summary

I program and debug Javascript that uses dynamic HTML and CSS. (I also dabble in browser security)

David Bloom’s Specialties:

Javascript, dynamic HTML and CSS, debugging, reverse engineering, security, getting as much free swag as I can :-)

David Bloom’s Experience

• Volunteer tester

  Opera Software

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; OPERA; Computer Software industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Member of the top-secret society of people who can log in to bugs.opera.com

• Web security researcher

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer & Network Security industry)

  2006 — Present (2 years)

  Semi-independent security vulnerability research of web pages and browsers.

• Software Engineer (intern)

  Google

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

  May 2008 — December 2008 (8 months)

  Google Docs
  fixing the buggiest part of web browsers: rich text editing

• Core QA

  Opera Software

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; OPERA; Computer Software industry)

  December 2007 — May 2008 (6 months)

  I find sites that don't work in Opera, find out why, and find out who needs to fix what :-). Much of this work involves reverse engineering very complex, dynamic sites (for example, Gmail "2.0" and Windows Live Hotmail).

• Software Engineer (intern)

  Google

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Computer Software industry)

  May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)

  I wrote frontend code for Google Docs (http://docs.google.com)

David Bloom’s Education

• San Jose State University

  2008 — 2008

• St. Ambrose University

  BS, Computer Science, 2005 — 2008

  Activities and Societies:

  Computer Club president

Additional Information

David Bloom’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Opera
• Secunia(vulnerability reports)

David Bloom’s Interests:

Web application frontend programming (Javascript/DHTML/Ajax/CSS/...) and frontend security (XSS/XSRF/social engineering/...)

David Bloom’s Groups:

•    Opera users

David Bloom’s Contact Settings

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