Friedrich Doku
PHD Student at Northwestern University
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFriedrich Doku is a PhD student and embedded systems security researcher with 10 years of practical experience building and hardening firmware and trusted stacks for ARM64 devices. He has combined academic research at the University of Pittsburgh and Northwestern with hands-on roles at Red Balloon Security, Sandia, Carnegie Robotics, Oracle, and Sandia to reverse-engineer embedded devices, perform firmware analysis, and optimize secure system performance. Passionate about how computing can improve human and planetary well-being, he brings a user-focused ethic to low-level security problems and trusted camera stacks. Friedrich’s background spans robotics rehabilitation work to cloud internship experience, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on applied security for real-world systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Northwestern UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh12, 12 at Irondale Senior High School
Github Skills (42)
messaging-system10
kernel10
driver10
operating-system10
sysctl9
private-messaging9
raspberry-pi9
hardening8
tee8
linux8
security8
csharp7
objective-c7
infiniband7
php7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MutexUnlocked/crypto
Jul 2018 - Jul 2020
Crypto utilites used for DEMS
Contributions:14 PRs, 49 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
demsutilitescrypto
MutexUnlocked/congenial-zephyr
Dec 2018 - Jul 2020
Zephyr the secure private messaging system
Contributions:254 commits, 26 PRs, 282 pushes in 1 year 6 months
securezephyrinfinibandmessaging-systemcommunication
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