Devin Gaffney
CTO, Co-Founder at Graze Social
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDevin Gaffney is a CTO and co-founder with 15 years of experience blending quantitative social science, machine learning, and full-stack engineering to build resilient, measurable systems against malicious automation. He has led teams and products that reverse-engineer coordinated inauthentic behavior—founding a sociotechnical security company and now building Graze Social to create sustainable social platforms while avoiding “enshittification.” His background spans academic research on radicalization and geolocation at Oxford and Northeastern to production ML pipelines and tiered ML-human labeling systems in industry. Devin is particularly skilled at rapidly prototyping and deploying distributed backend systems that simulate diverse bot behaviors, enabling clients to systematically survey attack surfaces before they’re exploited. Based in Portland, he combines rigorous research instincts with hands-on engineering and product leadership to turn complex socio-technical threats into actionable defenses.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's of Science (MSc.) Social Science of the Internet, Master's of Science (MSc.) Social Science of the Internet at University of OxfordLake Oswego High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (ABD) Network Science, Doctor of Philosophy (ABD) Network Science at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Internet Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Internet Studies at Bennington College
Github Skills (200)
language-detection10
similarity-search10
api10
aggregates10
nlp10
edit-distance10
schema-org10
imperva10
code-behind10
fact-checking10
twitter10
anaconda10
levenshtein10
web-automation10
bot-detection10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
CoCoreOrg/cocore_installer
Aug 2024 - Sep 2024
VM Deployment for CoCore
Contributions:4 PRs, 247 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
DGaffney/machine_learning_automated
Sep 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:312 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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