Joey Allen
Security Engineer at Meta
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoey Allen is a Senior Security Engineer and Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Tech with 11 years of hands-on experience across web, systems, and Android security. He blends applied research with production impact, having built graph-based attribution tooling at Meta that removed over 10,000 malicious assets and uncovered multiple H.265 decoder bugs while implementing a hardware-accelerated video decoder at Google. Joey’s recent focus is browser and web security, but his background spans offensive and defensive research, large-scale investigation frameworks, and secure software engineering. Based in California, he moves seamlessly between deep academic inquiry and pragmatic engineering—often turning research findings into integrated, high-scale platform protections.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster’s Degree Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Stackoverflow
381reputation
25kreached
4answers
3questions
Github Skills (20)
shell6
csv6
android6
parsing6
apktool6
abstract-interpretation6
bash6
python6
ocaml6
security6
program-analysis5
source-code-analysis5
static-analysis4
type-checking4
java2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jallen89/theia-cdm-samples
Dec 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:115 commits, 3 PRs, 54 pushes in 1 year 4 months
jallen89/jallen.github.io
Nov 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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