👋 Hey there, I'm Feross! ✨

I'm Feross Aboukhadijeh, an entrepreneur, programmer, open source author, and mad scientist.

I'm the founder and CEO at Socket, a developer-first security platform that prevents vulnerable and malicious open source dependencies from infiltrating your software supply chain. Thousands of organizations in every industry use Socket to safely discover, audit, and manage open source at scale.

In the past, I maintained 100+ packages on npm which are downloaded 1+ billion times per month. All my code is freely accessible on GitHub and funded by my supporters.

I built innovative projects like WebTorrent, a streaming torrent client for the web, WebTorrent Desktop, a slick torrent app for Mac/Windows/Linux, and StandardJS, a JavaScript style guide, linter, and automatic code fixer.

I also worked on fun projects like BitMidi, a free MIDI file database, Play, a music video app, and Study Notes, a study tool with college essay examples.

Before that, I built PeerCDN, a next-generation CDN powered by WebRTC for efficient peer-to-peer content delivery, which was acquired by Yahoo.

I'm a graduate of Stanford University and I've worked at Quora, Facebook, Yahoo, and Intel. In the past, I did research in the Stanford human-computer interaction and computer security labs.

At Stanford, I taught computer science for 6 quarters to students in Stanford's CS 198 section leader program, and was a teaching assistant for CS107: Computer Organization and Systems and CS 110: Principles of Computer Systems courses for 3 quarters. I organized lots of fun computing-related events as president of the Stanford Association for Computing Machinery chapter.

In September 2010, I built YouTube Instant in just 3 hours as a bet with my roommate. The site garnered immediate worldwide media attention — 1 million visitors in 10 days, and hundreds of news stories. Chad Hurley, CEO and co-founder of YouTube, was so impressed that he immediately offered me a job at YouTube (which I had to turn down in order to finish my degree).

I enjoy working on "mad science" — stuff that makes people say, "Whoa! I didn't know that was possible!".

My resume is available if you want to be all, like, formal and stuff, dude.

Email me at [my first name]@feross.org.

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Me as a little kid. I was obsessed with computers from the very beginning. Feross Aboukhadijeh in New York Magazine. Photo by Dan Winters.