Peter Bou-farah
Software Engineer
Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
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.
9 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 (28)
mongodb6
d3js6
daemon6
synchronization6
angular5
svg5
donut5
angular-library5
realtime4
golang4
php4
elasticsearch4
etl3
charts3
opensearch3
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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