Aimee Coughlin
Software Engineer at Arista Networks
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAimee Coughlin is a security-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building and hardening systems across corporate and adversarial settings. She spent multiple years on Facebook’s Red Team and Corporate Security, developing implants, C2 frameworks, device management and zero-trust tooling, and driving incident response and vulnerability remediation. Now at Arista Networks, she applies that offensive and defensive depth to production networking software. Her background blends rigorous academic research in networking and security (PhD work at University of Colorado Boulder) with hands-on engineering from internships to large-scale operational programs. Notably, she has led corporate container security and hardware-backed PKI efforts, showing a knack for turning research-grade ideas into practical, organization-wide controls.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Colorado School of MinesDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
English
Github Skills (20)
react6
chat6
client-library6
keybase5
react-native5
ios4
end-to-end-encryption4
pgp4
android4
go3
electron3
golang3
hhvm2
store-management2
service-client2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aimeemikaelac/xilinx_zedboard_c
Jan 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:235 commits, 153 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
aimeemikaelac/root_of_trust
Mar 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:400 commits, 345 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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