Sean "Prof Diggity" O'Brien
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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SeniorSean O’Brien is a cybersecurity educator, researcher, and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building privacy-first products and curricula across academia, nonprofits, and industry. He founded Yale Privacy Lab and PrivacySafe, leads cybersecurity programs at Bay Path University, and serves as Deputy Director of the Free Software Foundation, blending hands-on secure-software shipping with policy and open-source advocacy. His work spans secure hardware and software for healthcare and SMBs, blockchain/Web3 security, and NSA-aligned cyber education—efforts that have been cited by major outlets like The New York Times and Wired. Known for turning classroom experiments (Raspberry Pi, Kali) into real-world tools and training, he also runs Ivy Cyber to scale remote security education under the persona “Prof Diggity.” Based in New Haven, he uniquely bridges legal, technical, and organizational perspectives on privacy and digital rights.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (43)
operating-system10
mobile9
privacy9
android-application9
android8
cybersecurity8
tiktok-api7
exploit7
rust7
react6
blockchain6
spyware6
ads5
reddit5
tiktok5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lawfareblog/hacking-cybersecurity
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Hacking & Cybersecurity class materials - Scott J. Shapiro & Sean O'Brien
Contributions:76 commits, 1 PR, 69 pushes in 3 months
cybersecurity
profdiggity/yls-cybersec
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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