Ariel Flaster
Cybersecurity Researcher at Two Six Technologies
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAriel Flaster is a cybersecurity researcher with a decade of hands-on experience building and securing systems, currently focusing on offensive and defensive research at Two Six Technologies after contributing to Lockheed Martin’s cyber operations tooling. Their background blends systems-level teaching at Reed College—where they led the CS department's TA program and strengthened student proficiency in C++, Assembly, and systems—with practical product engineering on a shipped digital board game console, where they implemented game AIs and Unity front-end features. Comfortable across low-level systems, applied security engineering, and rapid product development, Ariel brings a rare mix of academic mentorship and production software impact. Based in Virginia and rooted in Reed College computer science, they pair a playful, self-aware coding ethos with sustained delivery in security-critical environments.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Reed CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (1)
parallel2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
flastest/HeterogeneousParallelDijkstra
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:62 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
flastest/HW2_Systems_flaster_strand
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:37 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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