Fariba Khan, Ph.D., Engineering Manager, Apple

Fariba Khan is an engineering manager at Apple. She has been an engineering leader for 10+ years of demonstrated excellence. She drives cloud efficiency and security initiatives at Apple for 5 years GHC Career co-Chair, ex-Google, and VMWare.

Fariba is an author of several published papers on DDoS defense and IAM policy

In the past, Fariba has worked in Google as Software Engineer. She wrote the Safe Browsing API client (github.com/google/safebrowsing). Safe Browsing protects more than two billion browsers and devices such as Android, chrome, firefox from phishing and malware. This is what makes Chrome show a big red warning for unsafe sites. She has also contributed to the large-scale system that detects the badness. This means collecting data internally and externally, scoring items for badness, storing the information and monitoring the services -- all through smart design.

She has been a Member of Technical Staff at VMware and Software engieer at Telenav.

Fariba has obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Univeristy of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has obtained her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science From Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

She is a Co-Chair for Grace Hopper Conference and has been keynote speakers in various Tech summits including GHC2021 CFP.

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