Parsia Hakimian
Senior Offensive Security Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolParsia Hakimian is a Senior Offensive Security Engineer with 11 years of experience building practical application security solutions and offensive tooling for enterprise and gaming platforms. Currently at Microsoft, he focuses on static analysis and AI-driven code inspection, having previously prototyped a code-only OpenAPI extractor in Go. His background includes senior roles at EA and Synopsys where he developed custom fuzzers, Semgrep rules, and automation to find vulnerabilities across C/C++, Java, Python, Go, and Rust. As a self-employed security researcher he ran bug bounty programs and contracts, and he authors Go security examples (Hacking-with-Go) that emphasize concurrency and real-world I/O patterns. Parsia combines deep reverse-engineering and cryptography experience with hands-on tool development, favoring Go for modern tooling. Colleagues rely on him to turn ambiguous research ideas into reproducible, production-ready analysis workflows.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Persian, English
Github Skills (10)
go10
concurrency10
channel9
slice8
network-interface8
file-access7
fileio7
file-processing7
file-handling7
security6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
parsiya/Hacking-with-Go
Dec 2017 - Feb 2020
Golang for Security Professionals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 5 PRs, 57 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Parsia's contributions primarily involve implementing and demonstrating fundamental Go programming concepts within the context of security. The user wrote example code for structs, slices, control flow (if/else, switch), and functions. They also demonstrated the use of methods, interfaces, and channels, including goroutines, indicating a focus on concurrency and core language features. The user implemented file system interactions using various I/O readers.
golangsecurity-toolssecurity-professionalssecurityprofessionals
parsiya/Hugo-Octopress
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
Port of the classic Octopress theme to Hugo
Contributions:122 commits, 28 PRs, 143 pushes in 7 years
hugohugo-themeoctopress
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