Said Varlioglu
Software Engineer at Apple
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSaid Varlioglu is a Digital Forensics & Incident Response Engineer with 11 years of experience blending hands-on cybercrime investigations, threat hunting and live incident response at organizations including Apple and Trend Micro. He pairs academic rigor—pursuing a PhD and teaching advanced cybercrime and network monitoring courses—with practical DFIR skills used to stop ransomware and extract patterns for bot detection. Based in Cupertino, he also contributes to open-source WebKit development, where his back-end work on image processing and rendering demonstrates low-level systems familiarity that complements his forensic analysis of artifacts. Said’s profile reflects a rare combination of policy-side investigation, classroom mentorship, and deep technical contributions to both security operations and browser engine code.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Information Technology, 3.97, Master of Science - MS, Information Technology, 3.97 at University of Cincinnati
Turkish, English
Github Skills (9)
gpu-programming10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
filter10
graphics-programming10
image-processing10
ios8
arm8
neon8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
WebPlatformForEmbedded/WPEWebKit
Feb 2015 - Aug 2022
WPE WebKit port (downstream)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:302 commits in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Said's commits primarily focus on modifying the WebKit engine, specifically related to image processing and handling of filters, and image backends. The user is involved in implementing various image effects, such as drop shadows, blur, and component transformations, and ensuring their functionality within the rendering engine. The contributions involve code changes to classes such as `FEBlendNeonApplier`, `FEImage`, and related classes to allow for improved GPU processing. Also, the work shows efforts to fix bugs related to text rendering and image scaling issues.
wpedownstreamwebkit
shallawa/WebKit
May 2022 - Mar 2025
Official git mirror of the WebKit repository, https://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit, future canonical repository.
Contributions:2175 pushes, 562 branches in 2 years 10 months
version-controllibgit2svngit-mirrorgitbook
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