Emma Connor
Research Scientist at Meta
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmma Connor is a research scientist and applied cryptographer with 12 years of experience building secure software systems, currently advancing privacy and security at Meta’s Messenger team. She spent five years as a security software engineer at Cisco and holds a PhD and MS in computer science with near-perfect GPAs, reflecting deep academic grounding in cryptography and software security. Emma combines rigorous research instincts with production-grade engineering, translating cryptographic protocols into deployable systems at scale. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, she is known for bridging formal security analysis and practical implementation, often surfacing subtle attack vectors before they reach users.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.95, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.95 at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (23)
exploit8
password-generator7
gdb7
turing-complete7
mojo7
python6
pwntools5
password-manager5
interpreter5
storage5
programming-language4
science4
blockchain-network4
blockchain3
compiler3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
josconno/zerostore
Aug 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 6 years 4 months
management-systempassword-generatorpassword-managerpassword-management-systempassword
emmaconnor/moria
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:16 releases, 87 commits, 79 pushes in 23 days
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