Benjamin Heald
Senior Security Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Heald is a Senior Security Engineer in New York with 11 years of hands-on experience bridging software engineering, offensive security, and academic research. After progressing from bug bounty hunting—where he discovered and helped patch critical flaws at major companies—to application security roles at Bugcrowd and Meta, he now focuses on securing large-scale systems at Meta. He holds both a BS and MS in Computer Science and has applied data-driven engineering at ASML and practical pentesting through RIT’s Eaton SAFE lab. Known for combining researcher curiosity with production-grade delivery, he brings a rare blend of offensive insight and software craftsmanship to hard-to-detect security challenges.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Brookfield High SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Gettysburg College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (25)
markdown9
tld8
web-automation7
discovery7
enumerate6
nodejs6
signing6
reddit5
security5
firmware5
python5
json-data5
ios4
json4
selenium4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Healdb/healdb.github.io
Mar 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:306 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years
Healdb/convertstellar.org
Jan 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:289 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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