Ari Trachtenberg
Professor at Boston University
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAri Trachtenberg is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Boston University with over two decades of academic experience and 11 years of industry-facing software engineering work. His research and practice bridge cybersecurity, distributed systems, software engineering, and information theory, and he routinely moves theoretical advances into production-quality, team-based CI/CD environments. He has held leadership roles including associate chair for graduate and MS programs and has taken industry sabbaticals at organizations such as Red Hat, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Tripadvisor to apply academic insights to real-world application security and systems engineering problems. Trained at MIT (BS) and UIUC (MS, PhD), he combines rigorous theoretical foundations with hands-on implementation experience—an unusual mix that informs both his teaching and his collaborations with industry.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Hebrew, Russian
Github Skills (9)
macos10
package-manager10
ports10
minimum10
command-line10
macports8
typescript7
serve2
raise2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nislab/gensync-core
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Core GenSync code
Contributions:22 reviews, 10 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Menshi1234/parparaot
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:24 pushes in 1 month
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