Richard Mcpherson
Senior Security Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Mcpherson is a Senior Security Engineer at Google with 11 years of hands-on experience in security research, threat modeling, and hardening large-scale internal services. He leads manual security assessments of frameworks and infrastructure and helped build automated security assessment tooling for Google's internal ecosystem. His background spans academic privacy and censorship-resistance research—discovering real-world failures in privacy-preserving systems and devising circumvention techniques—through to applied industry work on Docs/Drive security and IoT vulnerability research. Richard combines deep cryptographic and systems knowledge from a PhD with practical offensive skills (drone-enabled IoT wardriving and radio reverse-engineering) that surface subtle, high-impact risks. Based in New York, he focuses on making complex systems safer while advocating for censorship-resistant access to information.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor’s Degree, Physics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics and Computer Science at University of Virginia
English
Github Skills (24)
ieee9
neighbors8
kd-tree8
quic8
approximate8
zigbee7
nghttp27
security7
scriptable7
crawler7
c-library7
measurement6
nearest-neighbors6
firefox5
browser5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rfmcpherson/emacs-pref
Oct 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
rfmcpherson/Https-DownUp-Proxy
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 25 pushes in 13 days
sslproxytlsman-in-the-middlesweet
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