Derek Abdine
Co-Founder, CEO at Self-employed
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Abdine is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and seasoned technology leader with 13+ years building large-scale security telemetry, threat research, and cloud-native products. As Co-Founder and CEO of furl he focuses on autonomous remediation at scale, and his prior roles as Rapid7 Senior Director of Labs and CTO of Censys show a track record of turning internet-scale data collection into actionable security capabilities. He combines hands-on engineering (early reverse engineering, protocol work, and vulnerability research) with product and operational leadership, having driven projects that processed trillions of security records and informed national policy. An active freelance security researcher since the late 1990s, Derek has coordinated disclosures with CISA and uncovered issues at major vendors including Tesla and AT&T. He contributes to open-source security tooling—improving Rapid7’s recog repo with enhanced XML linting, CI automation, and better error diagnostics—and has a history of shipping pragmatic engineering processes and nearshore teams to accelerate time to market. Based in Los Angeles, he blends hacker curiosity (co-creating MultiTheftAuto and low-level game/hardware research) with enterprise-grade execution.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering minor Computer Science, Computer Engineering minor Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
xml10
fingerprinting10
ruby10
regex9
automated-tests8
cicd7
vscode7
java6
osgi6
mobile6
osgi-bundle6
apache6
jdbc6
dependency-injection6
cordova6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rapid7/recog
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
Pattern recognition for hosts, services, and content
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 37 commits, 11 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Derek made several contributions focused on improving the `recog` project's functionality and maintainability. They enhanced the verification process by adding line numbers to error messages and updating the logging format. The user also implemented automatic linting for XML files within VSCode and added features related to XML fingerprint validation and CI automation. These changes streamlined the identification of issues and improved the overall development workflow.
regexxmlhostsrecognitionruby
dabdine/recog
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
Pattern recognition for hosts, services, and content
Contributions:1 PR, 38 pushes, 14 branches in 11 months
hostspatternrecognitionpattern-recognition
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