Pouyan Sepehrdad
Senior Staff Manager Product Security Engineer at Qualcomm
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPouyan Sepehrdad is a Senior Staff Manager in Product Security Engineering at Qualcomm with a deep academic foundation in cryptography (PhD, EPFL) and a career spanning research and applied security across mobile, embedded, and OS kernels. He blends rigorous mathematical thinking with hands-on engineering, having moved from postdoctoral cryptography research at Intel into leadership roles securing complex products for over a decade. At Qualcomm he leads the Application Security sub-team within QPSI, driving secure development practices and incident response for large-scale platforms. An active practitioner in the security community, he contributes to projects like the BlackArch distribution, where he strengthened CI/CD and automated testing for penetration-testing tooling. Based in San Diego, he uniquely pairs theoretical cryptanalysis expertise with practical experience shipping secure systems across hardware and software stacks.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Cryptography, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Cryptography at EPFLBsc. Electronics Engineering, Bsc. Electronics Engineering at Isfahan University of TechnologyUniversity College London
Github Skills (9)
docker10
travis-ci10
dockers10
cicd10
scripting9
bash9
packaging8
archlinux8
zsh7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
BlackArch/blackarch
Nov 2018 - Mar 2021
An ArchLinux based distribution for penetration testers and security researchers.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:165 commits, 2 PRs, 159 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pouyan primarily focused on setting up and configuring the CI/CD pipeline for the BlackArch distribution. They made numerous commits related to `run-tests.sh`, modifying docker build and run commands within the Travis CI environment. Their work included fixing volume mounts and addressing build issues within the testing framework, ultimately ensuring the reliable and automated testing of the project. They also introduced zsh completion files and packaging changes related to snapd.
security-researcherssecuritypenetrationtesterspenetration-testing
1979139113/0day-today-exploits
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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