Mick Ayzenberg
Security Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMick Ayzenberg is a seasoned security engineer with 13 years of experience, currently serving as a tech lead for GenAI product security at Meta in Seattle. He has built zero-to-one security programs across Web3, payments, and custody domains, having led large cross-functional efforts at Meta FinTech to operationalize threat modeling, cryptographic frameworks, and third-party custody diligence. Mick’s background blends deep hands-on offensive security and training—he created and taught a popular blockchain hacking course and developed a blockchain CTF used in major conferences—with product-focused defenses across mobile, backend auth, and infrastructure. Pragmatic and data-driven, he has a track record of enabling rapid product launches while embedding rigorous security standards and metrics into SDLCs. Notably, he pairs incident-level technical depth (smart contracts, key custody, static analysis) with experience coordinating hundreds of contributors to mitigate systemic risk.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering Computer Engineering at University of WashingtonMercer Island High School
Github Skills (49)
diem10
financial10
burp10
finance10
ledger10
webservice10
cryptocurrency10
fintech10
xrp10
verifiable-credentials10
ethereum10
blockchain10
solidity9
security9
authorization9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SecurityInnovation/AuthMatrix
Jun 2016 - Jan 2018
AuthMatrix is a Burp Suite extension that provides a simple way to test authorization in web applications and web services.
Contributions:12 commits, 22 PRs, 138 pushes in 1 year 7 months
authorizationburpwebservice
mickayz/trezor-mcu
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:62 pushes, 6 branches in 9 days
lockfirmwaresourcestrezor
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