Benjamin Vandersloot
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Mozilla
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Vandersloot is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in browser privacy and web platform policy, currently leading privacy-focused engineering efforts at Mozilla. He has represented Mozilla at the W3C, helped deprecate third-party cookies, and led cross-team projects that shaped web privacy features like GPC while also contributing directly to Firefox's Anti-Tracking module. With a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and a background that includes a tenure-track academic appointment, he blends rigorous research instincts with practical, production-grade engineering. Benjamin is known for turning policy goals into shipped technical solutions and for mentoring peers on roadmap development for platform privacy. Based in Grand Rapids, he maintains an active work presence through his Mozilla GitHub identity, signaling a commitment to open collaboration even in regulated web standards spaces.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (41)
scanner10
network-scanner10
packet10
dns-lookup10
internet10
ipv410
go-application10
scanning10
networking9
coredns9
dns9
arrows9
network9
cli8
security8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bvandersloot/benvds.com
Oct 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:105 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
bvandersloot/brew-daemon
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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