Gurgen Hakobyan
Senior Staff Security Engineer at Squarespace
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGurgen Hakobyan is a Senior Staff Security Engineer based in Portland with 11 years of hands-on experience securing cloud platforms, adversary simulation, and incident detection and response. He holds a Master’s in Computer and Information Security from Carnegie Mellon and has led cloud and red/purple team programs at Autodesk, Synopsys, and Squarespace, building automation and tooling for threat detection and security validation. Gurgen’s background spans offensive engagements (red team, penetration testing, phishing) and defensive engineering (SIEM, network/cloud security, IaC hardening), enabling him to bridge attacker mindset with scalable protection. He routinely authors software to automate security assessments and threat consumption pipelines, and has taught reverse engineering and malware analysis—an unusual blend of academic rigor and practical offensive/defensive tradecraft.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer and Information Security, Master's degree Computer and Information Security at Carnegie Mellon University's Information Networking InstituteMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at American University of Armenia
Russian, Armenian, English
Github Skills (55)
archived10
windows10
signalr-core10
dotnet10
linux10
asp-net-core10
asp-net10
signalr-client10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
cross-platform9
signalr9
wait9
e2e9
testing-library9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Gurgen/SignalR-.net-core-android-client
Sep 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:4 releases, 34 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Gurgen/NewsApp
Mar 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
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