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Hey,
I’m Roger Filmyer, a Data Scientist at Akamai on the Web Security team.
I love everything from visualization to analysis, and the ability to see new information in interesting ways. I have a Master’s in Data Science from New College of Florida. Before this, I was a data analyst at Turo.
In my spare time, I enjoy photography, travelling, and just walking around the city.
My Latest Blog Post
On the Huggingface Breach
In July of 2026, the AI/ML model repository HuggingFace was unintentionally breached by an OpenAI-operated agent. My grandmother sent me a link to the New York Times article and I wrote my thoughts in an email to the family. I haven’t been putting much on my blog recently, so I figured I’d repost, with minor edits, my thoughts from last week:
The HuggingFace breach was the story of the week in my industry! Some thoughts: