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EDUCATION

Georgia Institute of Technology B.S. in Computer Science

ericjzhang@gatech.edu www.ericzhang.me

MOOCs (MIT OCW, Coursera) Cryptography I

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Anticipated Graduation: December, 2015 Cumulative GPA: 4.0/4.0

Malicious Software and its Underground Econ ...

PERSONAL PROJECTS o EZBLocker (C#) - A utility that blocks advertisements in the Spotify music player (with 100k monthly users).

o ChromeLogger (Javascript, AngularJS) - A keylogger built as a Google Chrome extension (with a Log viewer built in AngularJS & Bootstrap).

o Writeups: LS Research (BBC, KrebsOnSecurity), Cracking Adobe Air Apps, Reverse Engineering Twitch.TV's Viewer Counter

o More at Github.com/Xeroday

WORK EXPERIENCE

Summer 2015

Summer 2014

Summer 2013

Summer 2012

Pinterest San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer, Intern

- Conducted security assessments and remediated vulnerabilities in Pinterest and 3rd party vendor services.

- Wrote an alerting and monitoring system to protect Pinterest's AWS infrastructure (security groups, polices, IAM, etc).

Salesforce.com San Francisco, CA

Security Engineer, Intern

- Designed and built network perimeter monitoring software for over 100k IP addresses.

- 15x performance increase and 12x Lower operating costs over previous implementation.

- Performed offensive security assessments on Salesforce assets and acquisitions.

Sharewave New York, NY

Software Engineer, Intern

- Designed and built core functionality for the MVP, including database tables, user account management systems, etc.

- Wrote PostgreSQL stored procedures using PL/pgSQL and used AngularJS to create front-end app pages.

- Created a server farm platform for document transcoding using C# (w/ MS lnterops) and Python.

UConn Health Center Farmington, CT

Software Development & Research Intern

- Built Android and HTMLS mobile apps on adolencent substance abuse.

- Conducted research for a publication in the 2012 Summit on the Science of Eliminating Health Disparities in Washington DC.

LEADERSHIP

3 semesters Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA

Teaching Assistant (CS 2050, Intro to Discrete Math)

- Taught classes of 50 students and held office hours.

Present

Fall 2012

Present

Fall 2013

- Graded weekly homeworks and monthly exams.

Grey Hat @ GT Atlanta, GA

Admin

Grey Hat is a community where students can Learn offensive and defensive information security. - Led and competed in CTF competitions with the MadHatters team.

- Organized weekly meetings and gave presentations on security-related topics.

HackGT Atlanta, GA

Director, Technical Lead

HackGT is Georgia Tech's Largest hackathon with over 1000 participants.

- Planned and organized the hackathon as a director on the core team.

- Ran backend infrastructure and technologies.