Custom Tool Development and Automation Questions

Experience designing and building custom scripts, parsers, and standalone tools to automate forensic workflows, process proprietary file formats, and extend or integrate with commercial forensic platforms. Work commonly includes writing reliable, maintainable code in languages such as Python, C and C plus plus; creating robust parsers and data extractors; automating repetitive analysis and triage tasks; integrating tool outputs into reporting and evidence management pipelines; handling large data volumes efficiently; and documenting, testing, and maintaining toolchains. Interviewers may probe architecture and design choices, testing and validation strategies, performance trade offs, error handling and logging, and examples of measurable improvements in analysis throughput or accuracy.