Hi Everyone!

Welcome to the Censys Community! I’m one of Censys’ founders and lead our technical strategy. I am a researcher at heart, who became obsessed with how we could improve security through better data and visibility. I was part of the team that created ZMap and Censys at the University of Michigan and since then have been interested in figuring out how to best find, contextualize, and understand the relationships between all of the pieces of infrastructure that makes up the Internet. 

Outside of work, I avoid technology at all costs, attempt to take full advantage of living in California, and optimize for finding strange new vegetables, strip mall dives with upsettingly spicy food, and the largest dogs.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with any ideas, feedback, questions about our data or plans as a company, or simply strange things you’ve found on the Internet that would make me smile (or grimace?)! I’m also available over email at zakir@censys.com. 

Zakir