Ercan Ozturk
Research Scientist at WhatsApp
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolErcan Ozturk is a research scientist with 11 years of software and research experience, currently working on privacy initiatives at WhatsApp and Meta from Menlo Park. He holds advanced degrees from UC Irvine (including a PhD in Computer Science) and blends deep academic training with hands-on engineering across industry internships at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Yahoo. His background spans distributed systems, privacy-preserving key-value storage (notably work on a Byzantine Fault Tolerant K-V system integrated with Key Transparency), and cross-platform mobile/server development. Known for bridging research and production, he repeatedly moves prototype research into scalable implementations and open-source artifacts. Colleagues value his ability to translate rigorous cryptographic and systems ideas into practical privacy features used at scale.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji ÜniversitesiUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (58)
proxy10
voip10
whatsapp10
public-key9
key-management9
crypto9
integrity8
ssl8
fastcgi7
caching7
security7
verification7
ipv67
cryptography7
tee7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
eozturk1/akd
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
An implementation of the SEEMless protocol
Contributions:62 pushes, 22 branches in 3 months
ackdfinitygossipdbus
eozturk1/proxy
Jan 2023 - Jun 2023
This repository contains the WhatsApp proxy implementation for users to host their own proxy infrastructure to connect to WhatsApp for chat (VoIP and media upload/download not currently proxied)
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
proxyvoipwhatsapp
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