David Tagatac Software Engineer Contact: david@tagatac.net

Professional Experience

• Software Engineer, Splunk Observability (current position)
• Software Engineer, Uber Infrastructure
• Software Engineer, General Dynamics Information Technology, Suomi-NPP ground systems team
• Program Analyst, DrFirst

Education

• M.S. Computer Science, Columbia University in the City of New York
• M.S. Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
• B.S. Engineering Physics, Cornell University

Research Interests

• Language Design
• Computing Systems
• Program Correctness

Publications

• Using Diversity to Harden Multithreaded Programs Against Exploitation
  David M. Tagatac, Michalis Polychronakis, Salvatore J. Stolfo
  The 2nd IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing, 2016
• Poster Abstract: Time Randomization to Thwart Concurrency Bug Exploitation
  David M. Tagatac, Salvatore J. Stolfo
  35th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2014

Teaching

• Instructor, Introduction to Programming in C, Summer 2014
• Teaching Assistant, Intrusion Detection Systems, Spring 2015
• Teaching Assistant, Operating Systems I, Fall 2014
• Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Intrusion Detection Systems, Spring 2014

Service

• Conference Webmaster, RAID'13

Influential Mentors

• John DeValue, Freehold High School
• Thomas Vona, Freehold High School
• Prof. Paul McEuen
• Prof. David Muller
• Prof. Amos Sharoni
• Joseph Zajic
• Prof. Jeff Foster
• Dr. Andrew Kang
• Prof. Jason Nieh