Ercan Ozturk
Research Scientist at WhatsApp
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolErcan Ozturk is a research scientist with 11 years of software and research experience, currently working on privacy initiatives at WhatsApp and Meta from Menlo Park. He holds advanced degrees from UC Irvine (including a PhD in Computer Science) and blends deep academic training with hands-on engineering across industry internships at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Yahoo. His background spans distributed systems, privacy-preserving key-value storage (notably work on a Byzantine Fault Tolerant K-V system integrated with Key Transparency), and cross-platform mobile/server development. Known for bridging research and production, he repeatedly moves prototype research into scalable implementations and open-source artifacts. Colleagues value his ability to translate rigorous cryptographic and systems ideas into practical privacy features used at scale.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji ÜniversitesiUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (74)
chat10
whatsapp10
readable10
portable9
crypto9
api9
proxy9
infrastructure9
webcrypto9
ssl9
reference-implementation9
pkix9
voip9
integrity9
proxy-protocol8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
eozturk1/akd
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
An implementation of the SEEMless protocol
Contributions:62 pushes, 22 branches in 3 months
ackdfinitygossipdbus
eozturk1/proxy
Jan 2023 - Jun 2023
This repository contains the WhatsApp proxy implementation for users to host their own proxy infrastructure to connect to WhatsApp for chat (VoIP and media upload/download not currently proxied)
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
whatsappwhatsapp-webhostproxychat
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