Ermal Luci is a Director of Engineering based in Seattle with 15+ years of hands-on and leadership experience building high-performance teams and cloud-native networking products. He combines deep systems and security expertise—evidenced by CISSP and ISO 27001 credentials—with a long history of kernel- and network-focused engineering, contributing to FreeBSD and pfSense where he automated deployment and hardened network monitoring tooling. His career spans senior roles at Meta, AWS, Oracle and Panzura, bridging large-scale cloud edge security, IoT, and product architecture while driving measurable operational improvements. Known for turning complex compliance and infrastructure challenges into pragmatic DevOps-driven solutions, he has repeatedly reduced costs and increased performance through automation and density optimizations. Notably, he helped architect the pfSense appliance stack and continues to shape open-source networking tools alongside enterprise-scale engineering.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
CISSP Information System Security Management, CISSP Information System Security Management at (ISC)2
ISO 27001 Lead Auditor Information Security, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor Information Security at BSI UK
High School Electronic engineering and Telecommunication, High School Electronic engineering and Telecommunication at Harry T. Fultz
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Information Technology, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Information Technology at University of Tirana
ISO 27001 Lead Auditor Information System Security Management, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor Information System Security Management at BSI IT
Contributions summary:Ermal primarily contributed to the `pfsense-packages` repository by modifying package configuration files and scripts related to the Snort and ladvd packages. Their work included restarting services, fixing issues, bumping versions, and adding new packages. These modifications centered around automating and managing the deployment and functionality of security and network monitoring tools within the pfSense environment.
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