Thurston Dang
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolThurston Dang is a software engineer in Mountain View with nine years of experience focused on computer security, currently working on dynamic analysis tools like AddressSanitizer at Google. He combines applied security engineering on Android Platform Security and Trusted Execution Environment work with a strong research background as a postdoc at MIT in program analysis and compilation. Thurston holds a PhD in Computer Science and an MA in Statistics from UC Berkeley, which informs his rigorous approach to vulnerability detection and tooling. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and meticulous—he pairs deep systems knowledge with an appetite for shipping practical defenses (and an endearing fondness for cookies).
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (60)
bitmap10
modular10
llvm10
dotnet10
toolchain10
compiler10
clang10
file-format9
xmake9
bash9
single-file9
pybind119
hackage9
parallel-processing9
shell9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thurstond/llvm-project
Sep 2023 - Apr 2025
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Contributions:2 PRs, 366 pushes, 134 branches in 1 year 6 months
josepablocam/slime-paper
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:54 pushes in 17 days
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