Erin Avllazagaj
Security Engineer (PhD) at Meta
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErin Avllazagaj is a security engineer and PhD with 11 years of experience specializing in vulnerability research, kernel exploitation, and malware analysis. Currently securing VR/AR platforms at Meta, she brings hands-on exploit development and automated system-exploitation tooling experience from roles at Johns Hopkins APL and a long doctoral research stint at University of Maryland. Her background blends academic rigor with practical offense-focused skills—she has built tools to automate exploitation pipelines and previously reverse-engineered Unity-based game clients during industry internships. Known for finding subtle platform-level weaknesses, she pairs deep low-level systems expertise with applied research into privacy and threat modeling. Based in the United States, Erin’s profile reflects a rare combination of PhD-level research and production security at scale.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.69/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.69/4.0 at Bilkent UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, ECE, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, ECE at University of Marylandhigh school, General Studies, 10.4/10, high school, General Studies, 10.4/10 at Mehmet akif high school
Albanian, Turkish, English, Italian
Github Skills (41)
malware10
reverse-engineering9
bounds9
exploit8
clustering-algorithm8
colorize7
file-metadata7
autocomplete7
hdbscan7
compile7
clustering-evaluation7
cluster-analysis7
clustering7
boost7
sre7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Albocoder/CS319Project-YourStory
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:163 pushes, 1 branch, 9 comments in 3 months
Error404Namenotfound/Bilkent.Live
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:48 PRs, 86 pushes, 10 branches in 6 months
androidkotlinbilkent-universitybilkentflutter
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