Paul Lisker

Engineering,
Research,
Writing.

I'm a founding software engineer at Electio Technologies, where I build backend systems and infrastructure from the ground up.

Before Electio, I worked at Mark43 on mission-critical software for public safety agencies, and earlier at Palantir. I keep gravitating toward technology for critical infrastructure and public institutions.

Before that, I was a Fellow at the Federal Trade Commission and co-authored a study on privacy vulnerabilities in darknet markets, which was covered by The Washington Post and The Sunday Times. I studied computer science at Harvard, with a minor in government.

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Dark-net dealers dragged into the light

Press · Feb 2017

The Sunday Times investigation inspired by the darknet-market geolocation research below.

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How dark-net listings revealed sellers' locations

Press · Sep 2016

Washington Post coverage of the darknet geolocation findings.

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Geolocation leaks in darknet markets

Publication · Sep 2016

A study of how photos of illicit goods on the dark web exposed real-world locations, co-authored with Michael Rose on Medium.

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Personal data sharing by mobile apps

Publication · Oct 2015

What data your phone sends, and to whom. Published in the Journal of Technology Science, written as a Fellow at the Federal Trade Commission.

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Analyzers in Elasticsearch & OpenSearch

Blog Post · Sep 2024

How to use tokenizers, filters, and normalizers to optimize your search. Published on Eraser's technical blog Decision Node.

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Next-Generation 911 and Traumatic Imagery

Podcast · Jun 2019

Interview on Mark43's Pinpoint podcast about what dispatchers see and hear, and how software can help.

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Building an electric guitar

Hardware · May 2017

My Telecaster-inspired build from raw wood to working instrument, for Harvard's Computational Music Theory course.

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SpeakerSaver

Hardware · 2023

A Raspberry Pi monitor that checks for silence and cuts power to my speakers, so I stop leaving them on overnight.

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