Timothy Libert
Co-Founder at webXray.ai
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolTimothy Libert is a privacy-focused technologist and co-founder of webXray, bringing 11 years of experience at the intersection of engineering, research, and policy. Formerly Staff Privacy Engineer at Google, he led cookie and web storage policy, architected Google-scale compliance systems, and built internal privacy trainings. An academic by training with a PhD and faculty role at Carnegie Mellon and postdoctoral work at Oxford, he has advised regulators and litigants on high-profile data protection cases worldwide. His research and tooling (webXray) have driven major investigations and been widely covered in mainstream media, while his background spans hands-on web development to systems design. Based in Lisbon, he combines rigorous scholarship with product-minded engineering to turn complex privacy requirements into auditable, practical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at New York UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Communication Policy and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Communication Policy and Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (42)
readability10
policies10
headless-browser10
user-data10
traffic10
phantomjs10
hierarchical9
ruby9
disconnect9
linux9
scriptable9
macos9
package-manager9
rust8
homebrew8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
timlib/webXray
May 2015 - Oct 2022
webXray is a tool for analyzing webpage traffic and content, extracting legal policies, and identifying the companies which collect user data.
Contributions:1 release, 91 commits, 12 PRs in 7 years 6 months
analyzingcollectlegalpoliciesuser-data
timlib/webXray_Domain_Owner_List
Mar 2018 - Feb 2021
Hierarchical list of who owns commonly found third-party domains on the web, part of the webxray project.
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 10 months
partyprivacycommonlyhierarchicaldomains
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