waddup nerd

My name is Ziyad Edher (زياد إضهير), I'm a software engineer and I like breaking things. Follow me on Twitter for sick memes and sicker shitposts.

I am a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Check out my LinkedIn if you're into that.

I went to the University of Toronto and graduated from a computer science program focusing on artificial intelligence and computation theory.

Some things I like to talk about:

• Good software engineering
• Everything security-related
• Reinforcement learning
• Music (check out my Spotify)
• Scrappiness and entrepreneurship
• EVM performance (and performance in general)
• Microcontrollers and embedded systems

Some maybe cool things I did in the past:

• Lead the Product Security team at Asana, primarily focussed on building great secure-by-default frameworks.
• Did performance work and built ML and data infrastructure at Citadel Securities.
• Interned at Google (twice) working on communications and security.
• Taught cars how to drive at aUToronto.
• Investigated EVM performance in part in evm-bench.

If you're a meganerd, here's my PGP key (fingerprint: CB5D A985 9769 0CC1). You can probably find some places to verify this if you don't wanna trust GCP.