Feross Aboukhadijeh

Founder

San Francisco, California, United States19 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Founder of a leading security platform.
Developed innovative web security courses.
Created widely adopted open source projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Open Source expert with a strong focus on security and web technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipInformation SecurityComputer ScienceOpen Source SoftwareSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

CybersecurityWeb SecurityJavaScriptWebRTCWebAssemblyHTML5ProgrammingStart-upsNode.jsCascading Style Sheets (CSS)HTMLGitReact.jsJSONWebTorrent

About

Founder of Socket. Our mission is to improve security and privacy on the web. Socket is a technology company that builds security infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies—use our software to build more securely and more quickly. Join us: https://socket.dev Resume: https://feross.org/resume

Experience

19 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Andreessen horowitz

Angel investor and a16z scout

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

l invest personally as an angel investor and on behalf of a16z as a scout.

Socket

Founder & CEO

Jun 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 10 mos · https://socket.dev

Socket is a developer-first security platform that stops vulnerable and malicious open source dependencies from infiltrating your software supply chain. Socket was built by prolific security experts whose open source software is installed over 1 billion times per month. Customers include top organizations in tech, media, manufacturing, and finance.
https://socket.dev

EntrepreneurshipInformation SecurityOpen Source SoftwareCybersecurity

Stanford university

2 roles

Visiting Lecturer

Promoted

Sep 2019 – Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Created new course, CS 253: Web Security (https://cs253.stanford.edu)
Principles of web security, attacks and countermeasures, the browser security model, web app vulnerabilities, injection, denial-of-service, TLS attacks, privacy, fingerprinting, same-origin policy, cross site scripting, authentication, JavaScript security, emerging threats, defense-in-depth, and techniques for writing secure code. Course projects include writing security exploits, defending insecure web apps, and implementing emerging web standards.

Computer ScienceWeb Security

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs

Teaching Assistant for CS110: Principles of Computer Systems

Bitmidi

Open Source Developer

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr

Listen to MIDI files, curated by volunteers around the world. Supports in-browser playback using a WebAssembly MIDI player. Reaches 150,000 users per month. https://bitmidi.com

Open Source SoftwareWebAssembly

Brave software

Open Source Software Consultant

Dec 2016 – Dec 2021 · 5 yrs

Integrated my WebTorrent open source project into Brave Browser

Standard js

Open Source Developer

Jan 2015 – Jan 2022 · 7 yrs

Original author and maintainer. JavaScript style guide, linter, and formatter. 7.5M downloads/month. https://standardjs.com

JavaScriptOpen Source Software

Yahoo! inc.

Software Engineer

Dec 2013 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

Sold my company PeerCDN to Yahoo. Built fast, mobile-first HTML5 video player and deployed to 1B+ users. https://feross.org/peercdn

Software EngineeringHTML5

Peercdn

Founder & CEO

Mar 2013 – Dec 2013 · 9 mos

Acquired by Yahoo in December 2013. Next-generation CDN powered by WebRTC for efficient peer-to-peer content delivery. https://feross.org/peercdn

Stanford university

2 roles

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 · 0 mo

Taught for 1 quarter in CS107: Computer Organization and Systems

Section Leader

Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs

Taught for 6 quarters in the CS 106A: Programming Methodology and CS 106B: Programming Abstractions courses

Software Engineering

Webtorrent

Open Source Developer

Jan 2013 – Jan 2022 · 9 yrs

Original author and maintainer. The first torrent client that works in the browser. WebTorrent connects web users together to form a distributed, decentralized browser-to-browser network for efficient file transfer. https://webtorrent.io

Open Source SoftwareWebRTC

Quora

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 · 0 mo

Built and released the embedded video feature
https://ppueizifsfvhvmoc.quora.com/New-Product-Feature-Adding-Video-to-Quora

Facebook

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 · 0 mo

Revamped Facebook Groups and launched to 500 million users, on a team of 5 engineers in 4 months
https://money.cnn.com/2010/10/06/technology/facebook_event/index.htm

Study notes

Founder

Jan 2007 – Jan 2019 · 12 yrs

Side project, started in high school. Offers study tools and college prep to high school students. Reaches 800,000+ U.S. students each month. Students spend 3,300+ hours studying on Study Notes each day. https://www.apstudynotes.org