Ahmad D
Staff Security Engineer Detection & Response at Ambience Healthcare
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
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of New MexicoDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
French, Persian, EnglishGithub contributions (4)
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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