Bob AminAzad@Silverfoxy
Currently building bot detection systems including high performance distributed feature aggregation, MLOps, ML model training, and signal research at Cloudflare. Got my PhD from Stony Brook University in 2022 focusing on bot detection & static and dynamic source code analysis for attack surface reduction of web applications. As part of my research during my PhD I built a distributed PHP concolic execution engine called Distributed Animate Dead used for source code rewriting to prevent exploitation of zero-days in unused first-party modules and third-party dependencies.

My latest updates - 05/17/2026

During the past year and a half at Cloudflare I've been focusing on improving bot detection with a focus on content scraping attacks, proxy-based IP rotation, and time series anomaly detection. My efforts also include building new signals and distributed systems to collect and provide these signals to our detection engine.

I recently released my distributed feature store and synchronization engine to production and I'm currently focused on profiling, benchmarking, and improving the system to run on every single request in Cloudflare's largest and busiest colos.

On the more hobbyist side, I love custom keyboards and 3d printing.

I have recently built a wireless Reviung34 keyboard (with Nice!Nano and ZMK) and went from my Corne with 42 keys to 34 keys which I'm pretty happy with. You can check out my layout and setup here https://github.com/silverfoxy/zmk-reviung34

I've gotten quite comfortable with Onshape and I've used parametric design to build a few different useful 3D printed items ranging from Gummy Bear zipper pull tabs to replacement pieces for broken furniture.

I recently 3D printed, spray painted, and assembled a mini Commodore 1802 Monitor for my C64.

I have also developed a voice to text plugin for Steam Deck called Decktation focused on World of Warcraft: https://imsilverfoxy.com/posts/decktation-voice-to-text-for-wow-on-steamdeck/ I reached 3k IO as a Vengeance Demon Hunter tank this season, which as a former dps player I'm quite proud of.

Building Decktation: Voice Dictation Plugin for Steam Deck Feb 22, 2026