Justin Furuness
Assistant Professor In Residence at UConn College of Engineering
Mansfield, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Furuness is a software engineer and Assistant Professor in Residence with a PhD in cybersecurity focused on BGP security and eight years of hands-on experience building scalable research and production systems. He created BGPy, a widely used open-source Python BGP simulator with nearly 100k downloads that powers academic and NIST research, and turned it into bgpsimulator.com to teach, visualize, and auto-grade BGP labs for active users and instructors. At UConn he led large-data efforts—ETLing >100 GB of internet data, adding C++ PyBind11 bindings and highly optimized SQL—to reverse-engineer AS policies and evaluate novel defenses now submitted to top venues. In industry he led Python backend development and complex FHIR integrations at NeuralFrame, cutting runtimes from 28 hours to 20 minutes and achieving 100x query speedups via Mongo schema redesign. He pairs deep protocol security research with pragmatic engineering, and even builds user-focused Python tools—from voice web navigation for injured hands to automated housing and media utilities—highlighting a knack for turning research into usable software.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science and Engineering Computer Science and Engineering, PhD Computer Science and Engineering Computer Science and Engineering at University of Connecticut
Chinese, Russian
Stackoverflow
815reputation
223kreached
18answers
13questions
Github Skills (200)
python10
char10
dynamodb10
bgp10
scenarios10
qt9
webscraping9
root-finding9
numba9
programming-language9
gradient-descent9
pii9
parser9
meter9
gtk9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jfuruness/bgpy_pkg
Aug 2021 - Feb 2023
Simulates attack/defend scenarios in BGP
Contributions:9 reviews, 365 commits, 91 PRs in 1 year 5 months
scenariosattackbgp
jfuruness/roa_collector
Feb 2019 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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