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San Francisco, CA, US

San Diego, California, United States

• Teach security fundamentals to classes of 150+ students using C, C++, x86, and Linux Bash
• Develop, release, and grade content for homeworks, projects, and exams
• Host weekly office hours to explain programming assignments and reinforce concepts learned in class
• Topics include attacks and defenses against memory vulnerabilities, buffer overflows, sandboxing and isolation, cross site scripting, SQL injections, network vulnerabilities, TLS, cryptography

San Diego, California, United States

• Advised over 50 UCSD faculty, staff, and students daily in resolving interrupted workflow from connection issues, outages, and application errors
• Regulated account access, two-factor authentication, and network blocks to reinforce online security

San Diego, California, United States

• Developed a memory access visualization tool to improve understanding of caching, locality of
• reference, and their impacts on program performance
• Implemented a custom Python plotting backend by adapting Vaex and bqplot’s open-source codebases, improving navigation for graphs containing over 10 million data points
• Extracted 50MB+ worth of memory addresses at runtime using C++ and Intel PinManaged and configured Docker images to standardize development and runtime environments
• Practiced Agile software development methodologies to maintain consistent progress and minimize obstacles during our 1 week sprints