Justin Konecny

Software Engineer · Security & Privacy

Building secure authentication and AI safety systems at Meta.

Professional Experience

Meta

Software Engineer

AI Security
February 2026 - Present | NJ (Remote)

Building policy enforcement systems and security tooling to protect AI agent sessions and detect insecure code across Meta's AI platforms.

Hack
Rust
TypeScript

Meta

Software Engineer

Secure Product Auth
October 2024 - February 2026 | NJ (Remote)

Hardening authentication infrastructure across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads through 2FA security, session management, and account integrity improvements.

Hack
C++
Python

Meta

Software Engineer

Meta Account Access Infra
September 2023 - October 2024 | NJ (Remote)

Building federated identity registration APIs and account access infrastructure supporting millions of users migrating to Meta's next-gen identity platform.

Hack
React
GraphQL

Meta

Privacy Engineer

Incident Response
February 2022 - September 2023 | Menlo Park, CA

Designing tooling and ML systems to detect, quantify, and prioritize privacy incidents across Meta products.

Hack
React
Python
GraphQL
SQL
Machine Learning

Facebook

Privacy Engineering Intern

Incident Response
May 2021 - August 2021 | Menlo Park, CA (Remote)

Built a web application to quantify and investigate technical privacy incidents across Meta products.

Hack
React
SQL

Places For Less

Full-Stack Software Engineering Co-op

May 2020 - January 2021 | Boston, MA

Developed full-stack web solutions and third-party API integrations to support marketing and sales operations.

PHP
Laravel
Vue.js
SQL
Git
Salesforce API
Twilio API

Rocket Software

Software Engineering Co-op

July 2019 - December 2019 | Waltham, MA

Implemented features in a React/TypeScript web application and built concurrent thread-management utilities in Java.

Java
React
TypeScript
Git
Bash

Education

Northeastern University

2017 - 2021 | Boston, MA

Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity
Minor in Mathematics
Summa Cum Laude

  • Algorithms & Data Structures
  • Networks & Distributed Systems
  • Software Development
  • Object-Oriented Design
  • Network Security
  • Computer Systems
  • Systems Security
  • Cryptography
  • Theory of Computation
  • Software Vulnerabilities & Security
  • Foundations of Cybersecurity
  • Fundamentals of CS 1 & 2
  • Discrete Structures
  • Probability & Statistics
  • Statistics & Stochastic Processes
  • Embedded Design: Robotics
  • Differential Equations & Linear Algebra
  • Linear Algebra
Java
Python
Git
AWS
C
C++
Racket
LaTeX
AMD64 Assembly