Alejandro Cuevas
Head Silly Goose at Gonzo Labs
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlejandro Cuevas is a research-driven technologist with a decade of experience studying the mechanics and harms of online marketplaces, forums, and platform signals. He blends academic rigor—currently as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton CITP and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon—with hands-on systems work, from implementing anonymous mobile communication protocols at EPFL to building experimental LLM chatbots at Microsoft Research. As founder of Gonzo Labs and co-founder of Redoux, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with awarded design and product recognition. His research focuses on measuring how profile signals affect platform integrity and user safety, translating empirical insights into practical interventions. Based in Pittsburgh, he brings an unusual combination of security, privacy, and human-centered experimentation that surfaces risks lurking in the internet’s seediest corners.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Schreyer Honors College, Security and Risk Analysis - Information & Cyber Security Focus, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Schreyer Honors College, Security and Risk Analysis - Information & Cyber Security Focus at Penn State UniversityExchange Program, Exchange Program at Lycée Général et Technologique Marguerite de NavarrePh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Gujarati
Github Skills (26)
edb10
vulnerability10
linux10
workspace10
vulnerabilities10
cve10
security9
anonymity8
bug-tracker8
network7
fhe6
classification6
deterministic6
low-latency6
userspace5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aledcuevas/aledcuevas.github.io
Feb 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
DDM-Lab/BruteForce_SQLi_Challenge
Mar 2025 - May 2025
Dark vault Challenge on Pico Platform
Contributions:5 PRs, 17 pushes, 10 branches in 1 month
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