Robert Wasinger
PHD Student at Arizona State University
Chandler, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRobert Wasinger is a cybersecurity researcher and educator pursuing a PhD at Arizona State University with nine years of professional experience and a perfect BS in Computer Science. He frequently lectures for pwn.college and blends academic research with practical teaching, making complex offensive security topics accessible to learners. Past entrepreneurial and leadership roles—founder/CEO of One Page Go and director-level experience at Fast Wireless—give him a pragmatic, product-minded approach to research. An active open-source contributor, he has improved macOS wallpaper and terminal behavior in the popular pywal project, showing attention to cross-platform user experience and low-level desktop integration. Based in Chandler, Arizona, he pairs rigorous academic training with hands-on engineering and community-facing education.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Riverdale High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 4.0 at Arizona State University
Github Skills (5)
sqlite10
python10
macos9
terminal-emulator8
wal7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dylanaraps/pywal
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 26 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on improving the macOS wallpaper functionality within the pywal project. Their contributions involved fixing a dock crash, modifying database interactions to set the wallpaper on all monitors/workspaces, and updating the code to use more modern string formatting. Further contributions were also made that included fixing cursor transparency within iTerm2 and general code style improvements.
terminal-emulatorscolor-schemeson-the-flywalschemes
pwncollege/program-security-dojo
Sep 2023 - Oct 2025
Program Security
Contributions:1 PR, 39 pushes in 2 years
security
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