Ethan Ferguson
Security Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEthan Ferguson is a Security Engineer with a decade of experience building secure, high-performance systems and cloud-native applications, currently contributing to Meta's security engineering efforts. He combines academic rigor—Binghamton CS with published work at ACM and IEEE—with hands-on product experience at Jahnel Group, GrammaTech, CodeSecure and Sonnet Software. His research uncovered a novel WebGPU-based GPU cache side-channel and achieved state-of-the-art website fingerprinting accuracy, demonstrating a rare blend of offensive research and practical mitigation. Ethan has led penetration testing initiatives, engineered secure serverless and cloud platforms using TypeScript, React, Node.js, and AWS, and rebuilt critical binary analysis pipelines with Prefect and Docker. Comfortable bridging research, dev, and product teams, he’s known for turning around troubled projects and translating complex security findings into actionable fixes. Based in New York, he also brings sysadmin roots from university life, which inform his pragmatic, infrastructure-first approach to security.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at Binghamton University
Github Skills (57)
theos9
csh9
cve8
openvas8
ride8
portal8
vulnerability7
makefile7
perl7
qbcore-framework7
vulnerabilities6
react6
notification6
spring-boot6
security6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ethanf108/csh-pings
Aug 2022 - Aug 2023
Notification dispatcher for CSH services
Contributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 59 pushes in 1 year
spring-bootnotificationsdispatchernotificationcsh
ethanf108/Intraspect
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
A JVM Bytecode and Class File manipulation framework
Contributions:3 reviews, 15 PRs, 117 pushes in 3 months
manipulationjvm-bytecodefile-manipulationbytecodejvm
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