DamianĀ Menscher
DoSSec at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDamian Menscher is a veteran security engineer and tech lead based in Mountain View with over 8 years focused on designing and operating large-scale DDoS defenses at Google. He founded and grew both the ProdSec and DoSSec SRE teams, leading incident response to major botnet attacks (including Mirai) and guiding Cloud Armor defenses for customers. Skilled in Python, C++, GPGPU, and OpenGL, he blends low-level systems engineering with network security and automated mitigation at internet scale. His background includes tracing high-profile intrusions (the Aurora investigation) and running security-critical production infrastructure like internal CAs and ultra-secure data environments. Known for coordinating technical and non-technical strategies, he also pursues proactive botnet hunting and infrastructure cleanup as a practical hobby. Damian pairs a PhD-level physics mindset with hands-on SRE expertise to tackle novel adversaries and hard-to-model threats.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MS PhD Physics, MS PhD Physics at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBS Honors Physics, BS Honors Physics at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (30)
finder9
visual-studio-code-extension9
vscode-snippets9
duplicate9
vbnet8
discord-bot8
vscode8
webapp8
vscode-extension8
discord8
csharp7
decompiler7
decompile7
video-player7
mono7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DeepQuantum/dconstruct
May 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:237 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
DeepQuantum/HadesRoomSecretIndicatorMod
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 9 months
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