Peter Bou-farah
Cybersecurity Engineer at Tesla
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Bou-farah is a cybersecurity engineer and software engineering student at the University of Ottawa, currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area and working at Tesla. With nine years of hands-on experience across security and embedded software roles, he has built secure systems at organizations including Trend Micro, Ross Video, and the Government of Canada. He founded a profitable automation startup that generated $7,000+ by building a secure Python trading engine for Roblox, showing a blend of product mindset and technical craft. As president of uOCybersecurity, he runs Ottawa’s largest student CTF and brings applied red-team/blue-team experience to campus leadership and event organization. His interests span low-level systems, machine learning, and full-stack development, enabling him to bridge hardware-near engineering with modern security practices. Known for shipping pragmatic, secure solutions, he combines curiosity-driven projects with real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Software Engineering at University of Ottawa
English, French
Github Skills (19)
daemon8
synchronization7
mongodb6
d3js6
opensearch6
realtime4
golang4
php4
svg4
go4
etl4
elasticsearch4
angular4
rescue3
capstone3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pfarah65/shopping
Dec 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
pfarah65/mygithubpage
Jun 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:18 pushes, 7 branches in 6 months
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