Forrest Fleming
Senior Security Engineer at Google
California, United States
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Top SchoolForrest Fleming is a Senior Security Engineer with 11 years of software and security experience, currently driving security at Google after earlier senior roles at Procore. He blends deep programming expertise with a particular focus on toolchain and exploit development, applying research-driven techniques from his PhD work to practical, large-scale security problems. Forrest’s background spans academia and industry—teaching and researching at UC Irvine before transitioning to engineering roles—giving him an unusual mix of rigorous analysis and production-grade delivery. Based in California, he’s known for translating low-level exploit insights into robust defenses and developer tooling that improve security posture across complex platforms.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at Purdue UniversityUniversity of California, Irvine
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Github Skills (102)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ffleming/crypto_toolchain
Aug 2017 - Sep 2018
Crypto toolchain
Contributions:120 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 1 month
toolchaincryptocurrencycrypto
ffleming/dotfiles
Dec 2014 - Nov 2022
Dotfiles!
Contributions:261 commits, 11 PRs, 182 pushes in 8 years
vimkarabinerneovimstowdotfiles
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