Naif Mehanna
Staff Research Engineer at Castle
Lille, Hauts-de-France
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Top SchoolNaif Mehanna is a Senior Threat Researcher with nine years of experience blending academic rigor and industry impact in web security, browser fingerprinting, online advertising, and bot detection. He holds a PhD from the University of Lille and has published award-winning research—co-leading a novel GPU-based fingerprinting technique and devising an end-to-end methodology to measure the carbon impact of online advertising. Naif has translated research into production at companies like DataDome and Castle, building defenses that detect fraudulent traffic and hard-to-catch bots. His background in robotics and data engineering informs a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach spanning Rust, Python, Node.js, and distributed tooling such as Kubernetes and Spark. Known for bridging academia and industry, he frequently advises stakeholders from government to private sector on privacy and ad-tech threats.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Lille 1 Sciences and TechnologyEngineer's degree, Ingénierie informatique, micro-électronique, automatique, Engineer's degree, Ingénierie informatique, micro-électronique, automatique at Polytech Lille
English, Spanish, Arabic, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (19)
wifi9
database8
scanning8
wifi-hacking7
esp82667
arduino6
testing5
crawler3
puppeteer3
reinforcement-learning2
convolutional-neural-networks2
js2
cmake1
ios1
react-native1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
naifmeh/smartbot
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Reinforcement learning for more efficient bots
Contributions:27 commits in 1 month
reinforcement-learning
tarzan212/squeezeCNN
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:31 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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