Ahmad D
Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAhmad D is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience specializing in systems and network security. He has led threat detection and security engineering work at Salesforce and now contributes to LinkedIn's security efforts, bringing deep hands-on expertise from building a web application firewall and honeypot early in his career. His academic research produced RARE, a router-emulation tool that automates platform-aware malware analysis and Yara rule generation, reflecting a rare blend of practical defensive engineering and rigorous research. Comfortable across reverse engineering, IDS design, and large-scale telemetry projects, he focuses on turning complex attack surface insights into actionable detection. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, research-informed solutions that bridge firmware diversity and enterprise threat detection.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Amirkabir University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
French, Persian, EnglishGithub contributions (3)
darkerlord/RIoTMAN2020
Oct 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
darkerlord/SourceFinder-Rokon
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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