Anton Agafonov
Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAnton Agafonov is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years' experience building large-scale trust and safety systems, currently protecting account integrity across Facebook and Instagram from London. He designs detection platforms and ML pipelines that stop credential stuffing, phishing, and other compromise vectors while replacing binary blocks with risk-based challenges to preserve user experience. At Meta he led a multi-year migration of foundational detection infrastructure and introduced URL clustering and anti-cloaking techniques to proactively intercept malicious content. Known for bridging modelling and system design, he combines deep hands-on engineering with cross-functional leadership to deliver reusable security platforms used across products.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Github Skills (6)
tornado9
mailer9
asynchronous8
django8
django-framework8
python7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
equeny/tornadomail
Nov 2011 - Feb 2015
Django mail system ported to tornado and made asynchronous
Contributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 3 months
django-mailmailpythonasynchronousdjango-framework
django-stars/authlater
Apr 2011 - Apr 2011
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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