Philip Marinov
Autodidactic ML & Systems Researcher
Projects
Copy My Write
October 2025
Discovered and reported a Windows SCSI command sanitization vulnerability, earning a $3,000 bug bounty reward from Epic Games.
Exact Latents
August 2026
Built and trained a model that compresses Python functions into latent vectors a language model reads back byte-identical, reconstructing 88% of 600 never-seen functions at a quarter of the context cost.
IPABrew
March 2026
Won Most Creative award at a hackathon for building a local app that reconstructs proto-language forms from IPA cognates, retraining a bidirectional Transformer across 65 languages alongside a LingPy alignment baseline, Flask REST API, and interactive tree editor.
Diskjacker
August 2025
Engineered an exploit demonstrating Hyper-V hypervisor hijacking by abusing unvirtualized access to disks.
Experience
Primepoint Labs
Hybrid San Mateo
Software Engineer
June 2026 – Present
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Architected and trained proprietary ML models for document segmentation and parsing, cutting inference costs by up to 1,000x while improving output quality.
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Shipped full-stack, user-facing production features from scratch.
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Promoted from Software Engineer Intern to Software Engineer within months.
Pioneers in Engineering Competition
UC Berkeley
Lead Software Engineer
December 2024 – December 2025
Won 1st place in the 2025 competition as software lead for my high school robotics team, building the Python infrastructure from scratch with modular control systems and real-time sensor processing.
Code Tenderloin
Remote/San Francisco
Software Intern
Summer 2024 and 2025
Taught students Python robotics and HTML/JS web development through structured curriculum, technical mentorship, and hands-on projects.
Education
Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory
Senior in High School
San Francisco, CA
August 2023 – May 2027
Skills
Machine Learning
LLM fine-tuning, custom architectures, object detection, PyTorch, vLLM
Windows Internals / x86-64 Systems
Kernel drivers, system calls, SCSI, Win32 API, Hyper-V, UEFI, page tables
Reverse Engineering
IDA Pro, x64dbg, WinDbg, static/dynamic binary analysis, network/API protocol reversing
Backend Infrastructure
High-throughput automation, Go, Python, distributed APIs, Linux/Windows environments
Languages
C/C++
Advanced
x86 Assembly
Proficient
JavaScript
Proficient
Python
Proficient
Publications
Personal Blog
Technical blog covering vulnerability research, Windows internals, and custom machine learning experiments.
Early Days Portfolio
2018
Archive of early programming projects dating back to 2018, exploring canvas graphics, trigonometry, and core web fundamentals.