William Blair
Senior Security Software Engineer at SpaceX
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Blair is a Senior Security Software Engineer with 14 years of experience blending academic rigor and practical systems work to find and mitigate subtle software vulnerabilities. With a PhD in Computer Science from Boston University and recent roles at Oracle and SpaceX, he specializes in program analysis, language-based security, and advanced type-system techniques for systems software. His background spans research internships at IBM Watson and hands-on development from embedded firmware to full-stack web apps, giving him rare visibility across hardware, firmware, and cloud software stacks. Known for turning formal research into practical defenses, he focuses on discovering unknown attack surfaces and building language-driven mitigations that scale to production environments. Based in Washington, DC, he brings both deep theoretical expertise and a track record of shipping secure, auditable systems in high-stakes settings.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Boston University
Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wdblair/avr-libats
Jul 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:188 commits in 7 months
wdblair/ATS-Postiats
Mar 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:388 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
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