Mehdi Karimi
Research Scientist at ubc
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMehdi Karimi is a research scientist and seasoned software security engineer with over a decade of R&D experience designing tools and novel test techniques for secure systems, and eight years of hands-on industry experience delivering SSDLC/DevSecOps pipelines. He holds a PhD and has invented authentication and authorization methods for IoT, won a best paper award, and authored several practical software-security testing innovations. Fluent in C and Java and competent in Python, he combines embedded-systems and cloud expertise (AWS, ECS, EC2, IAM, GitHub Actions) with applied deep learning experience in DNNs, CNNs and sequence models. Mehdi operationalizes security end-to-end—from threat modeling and SAST/SCA to fuzzing, pen testing, and SIEM-driven monitoring—while maintaining national reliability clearance. Less obvious: he approaches AI as a predictive-optimization toolset, blending academic rigor with pragmatic tool-building to simplify complex computer problems.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (45)
content-management-system10
cms10
java10
php10
headless-cms10
graphql10
testing9
pytest9
restler9
dotcms9
hybrid9
content-management9
api9
rest-api8
property-based-testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mbiuki/Phoenix
Sep 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
DependableSystemsLab/DynPolAC
Nov 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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