Fabienne Haas
Security Research Engineer at Cisco
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolFabienne Haas is a security research engineer with 14+ years of hands-on experience across hardware and firmware security, datacenter design, and infrastructure software. She has a strong track record delivering mission-critical projects on time—from building automated deployment tooling and storage clusters to shipping embedded encrypted voice systems—and now applies that breadth to security research at Cisco. As founder and Executive Director of KnitYak she combined industrial control software, open-source knit design code, and successful fundraising to bring physical products into museum collections, demonstrating rare cross-disciplinary fluency between hardware, craft, and software. Fluent in English and French with strong business German, she’s a trusted troubleshooter and public speaker who has presented at conferences like ACM Computational Fabrication and HITB. Co-author of an academic mathematics paper on Möbius Cellular Automata Scarves, she blends formal mathematical thinking with practical engineering to solve subtle security and systems problems.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at University of the Pacific
English, French, GermanGithub contributions (4)
fbz/knityak
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
fbz/strawberry
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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