Eric Zinnikas
Security Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Zinnikas is a Security Engineer and manager based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience specializing in Detection & Response, Digital Forensics, and Infrastructure Security. He blends hands-on engineering with team leadership to build resilient detection pipelines and forensic capabilities that scale for cloud and hybrid environments. An active contributor to notable open-source tooling—having enhanced google/turbinia by improving Celery/Redis integrations, serialization safety, and test stability—he focuses on operational robustness as much as feature delivery. Eric’s background in backend and DevOps work gives him a pragmatic approach to incident response, automation, and secure infrastructure design.
11 years of coding experience
The University of Maryland, College Park
Github Skills (16)
celery10
security-automation10
cloud-computing10
back-end-development10
redis10
python10
dfa9
dfu9
computer-forensics9
dfd9
dfm9
kombu8
docker8
gcp8
dockers8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
google/turbinia
Jun 2018 - Jun 2019
Automation and Scaling of Digital Forensics Tools
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 16 PRs, 70 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on enhancing the Turbinia framework's core functionality and infrastructure. Their contributions included refactoring the `setup.py` file, integrating Celery and Redis alternatives to GCP/Pubsub, and updating dependencies. They also addressed critical issues by handling queue exceptions, updating configuration parameters, and improving test stability, indicating a focus on both backend performance and operational robustness. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the Celery integration by using JSON serialization instead of pickle and addressing issues related to task serialization and deserialization.
security-automationpythonsecurity-toolsdfirbugbounty
ericzinnikas/ericzinnikas.github.io
Jan 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:21 pushes in 4 years 10 months
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