David Youssef
Head Of North America Incident Response at FTI Consulting
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Youssef is a cybersecurity leader with over a decade of frontline experience, currently heading North America Incident Response for FTI Consulting. He has built and led teams handling ransomware, nation-state espionage, business email compromise, and complex digital forensics across both industry and academia. His background spans hands-on malware analysis, cloud security engineering, offensive security, and breach litigation support, enabling him to bridge technical response with legal and regulatory requirements. At FTI he progressed through successive leadership roles, demonstrating delivery of high-stakes incident management at scale. Based in New York, he also taught cybersecurity at the university level and ran technology programs for a major conference, reflecting a blend of practitioner depth and community-facing education. Colleagues rely on him for crisis composure, thorough investigations, and pragmatic resilience planning that anticipates attacker tradecraft.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Science at Fordham University
Github Skills (10)
resolutions10
symbolic-computation8
mathematics8
interpreted-programming-language8
polynomials8
macaulay28
groebner-basis7
projective-geometry7
machine-learning3
proof-assistant1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dswinarski/M2
May 2015 - May 2026
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 11 years 1 month
code-repositorymacaulay2
dswinarski/math2001
Jan 2024 - Apr 2024
Lecture notes for a course on writing proofs, on paper and in the Lean proof assistant
Contributions:30 pushes in 3 months
proof-assistant
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