Behnam Shobiri
Senior Security Researcher at Tigera
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBehnam Shobiri is a Senior Security Researcher with six years of experience specializing in cloud-native, container, and TLS security, currently shaping shift-left security practices at Tigera in Canada. He leads CVE detection and mitigation, integrates SCA/static analysis/secret-detection into CI pipelines, and has improved image-scanner accuracy while aligning products with Kubernetes and NSA/FIPS best practices. His research background includes implementing an SGX-backed cryptographic service for Trusted TLS 1.3 at Ericsson and uncovering widespread CDN/TLS vulnerabilities affecting over 160,000 high-profile sites during his academic work. An active contributor to the Calico project, he has strengthened build and test infrastructure and modernized Go and dependency management, reflecting a blend of hands-on DevOps and deep security research. Notably, he pairs top-of-class academic credentials (MASc with a perfect GPA) with practical offensive and defensive security experience across industry and research.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree (MASc), Computer Science and Information Security, GPA 4.3/4.3, Master's degree (MASc), Computer Science and Information Security, GPA 4.3/4.3 at Concordia UniversityBachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering - Ranked first based on GPA, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering - Ranked first based on GPA at Ferdowsi University of MashhadHigh School & Middle School Diploma, Mathematics, High School & Middle School Diploma, Mathematics at National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (Sampad)
French, Persian, English
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
go10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
ebpf9
dockers9
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
docker9
cni9
testing8
security8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
projectcalico/calico
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Cloud native networking and network security
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:79 reviews, 48 commits, 125 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Behnam's commits primarily focused on improving the project's build and testing infrastructure. They implemented updates to dependencies and fixed conversion issues within the code. Additionally, the user was responsible for updating the golang version. The user also addressed various updates in the repository's dependencies and refactored some sections of the code.
cloud-nativenetwork-securitynetworkingcnicni-plugin
Behnam-Shobiri/CDN-Finder
Apr 2021 - Nov 2023
Find the CDN that a website uses!
Contributions:3 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
cdn
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