Gideon Mitchell
Hey, I'm Gideon. I'm a 20-year-old developer currently double majoring in math and computer science at the University of Chicago. This is where I post anything I do or make that seems interesting enough to share with other people.
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How I (Techincally) Hacked the Department of Defense
A quick writeup on the IDOR exploit I found on an AWS Bucket owned by the DOD.
Mackerel - A Chess Engine Written in Pure C
A chess engine with ~2,000 ELO. This is where I learned firsthand that there are horrible horrible bugs that can happen when you mix low-level C programming, recursion, and custom hashing methods.
Bioinformatics & Data Science Research
I’m currentley working under professor Esmael Haddadian to determine the structure of amyloid-beta oligomers using the machine learning program AlphaFold and applied data science tecniques.
- You can read my abstract for the Biophysical Society Here.
- You can read my successful appliation for the Quad Research Scholars Grant Here.
Other Projects
- Spotify Lyrics: a popular API wrapper for Spotify that retrives the lyrics for whatever you’re currently listening to. Integrates OAuth, credential caching, and some web scraping to retrive the lyrics.
- Project Euler Solutions: solutions I’ve written to select Project Euler problems, which are difficult math/cs challenges. I’m currently working on problem 360.
- Hack The Box: a pentesting platform where I learned a good chunk of my Linux fundamentals. I have 17 user owns and 13 system owns. you can view my profile Here.