David P.

Scaled Investigations @ LinkedIn

New York City Metropolitan Area

About

Experienced Trust & Safety investigator with 5+ years driving cross-functional investigations, policy development, and operational strategy in high-risk online environments. Specializing in mitigating GenAI misuse, adversarial behavior, and societal harms such as CSAM, NCII, terrorism, and election interference. Proven track record collaborating with engineering, policy, legal, and research teams to build scalable detection systems, risk frameworks, and enforcement protocols. Technically skilled in Python and SQL.

Experience

  • Trust Investigator at LinkedIn
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

  • Threat Intelligence Analyst at Meta
    Jan 2021 - Sep 2025 · 4 yrs 9 mos

    As a core member of Meta’s Trust & Safety team, I lead high-impact investigations and cross-functional initiatives to mitigate emerging threats from adversarial actors and GenAI misuse. My work spans AI safety, content moderation, policy enforcement, and technical automation to safeguard global user communities. AI Safety & Emerging Threats: Led 4 global disruptions targeting misuse of generative AI technologies, implemented operational guidelines, and supported legal action against NCII providers. Designed risk assessment frameworks to proactively identify threats involving Human Exploitation, Terrorism, and Election Interference. Policy & Enforcement Strategy: Partnered with engineering, policy, legal, and data science to build ecosystem-level mitigation, contributing to Meta’s first Coordinated Social Harm disruption (Germany) and election integrity efforts in the EU (2024), Philippines (2022), and Ethiopia (2021). External Legitimacy: Built and maintained collaborative relationships with external partners, including private intelligence firms and industry counterparts, to share intelligence on emerging threats. Vendor & Intelligence Program Leadership: Operationalized KPIs across 3 vendor portfolios, increasing lead-to-disruption efficacy from 35% to 85%. Investigation Automation: Developed 4 Python notebooks to automate enforcement analysis across influence operations, extremism, and abusive GenAI enforcements, saving 100 investigator hours annually

  • Security Analyst Intern at Facebook
    Jun 2020 - Sep 2020 · 4 mos

    Hate and Extremism: Drove expansion of the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, resulting in the removal of over 600 militarized social movements involving 2,400 Pages and 14,200 Groups

  • Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) Intern at U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
    Sep 2019 - Dec 2019 · 4 mos

    Data Collection: Conducted Python-based analysis of 11 complex financial datasets to support rulemaking on emerging growth companies Fraud and Scams: Built a database of 400 cryptocurrency companies violating KYC protocols to guide fraud enforcement actions

  • Sergeant at United States Marine Corps
    Oct 2012 - Sep 2017 · 5 yrs