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Privacy Architecture and Secure Engineering

It is my personal philosophy that you must build with privacy first and then build software securely. If you build systems that are dangerous to privacy, then they can never truly be secure.

Certifications: Sec+, GFACT, GCLD, GPCS, GCSA

Experience

04-2021 - present

Director of Engineering

The Electronic Frontier Foundation

  • Manage and support EFF Open Source Projects
  • Certbot management and coordination
  • Consultation on digital security with law/policy makers
  • Work on EFF PIT team to maintain and develop new projects
  • Manage engineer's development, team morale, and assist with goals
  • Continued development and updates to security education guides
  • HTTPS Everywhere maintenance and sunset

Tech: ACME, HTTPS/TLS, TCP/IP

08-2018 - 03-2021

Staff Technologist

The Electronic Frontier Foundation

  • Lead developement on HTTPS Everywhere web extension
  • Work with community partners in the Tor project
  • Privacy advocacy on major web platforms
  • Worked on Security Education Companion for EFF Tor Guides and developed Surviellance Self Defense guide on Phone Privacy
  • Research various related encryption technologies
  • Keep up to date on browser policies

Tech: JavaScript/ES6, Python (Selenium), Bash, NodeJS, Linux, Travis, Docker, HTTPS/TLS, TCP/IP, Onion Routing

04-2017 - 07-2018

Senior Web Developer

True North Inc.

  • Led a site rebuild for a major private client from build to launch with no missed deadlines in 3 months
  • Maintain & manage services and containers that hold internal and external resources/sites on Linux environments
  • Mentor and manage developers
  • Perform code reviews for production ready standards
  • Analyze inventory of resources and sunset projects as needed and decrease technical debt

Tech: WordPress, Drupal 7, JavaScript/ES6, Angular, Backbone.JS, AWS, Digital Ocean, Gulp

03-2016 - 03-2017

Interactive Developer

True North Inc.

  • Refactored and updated code that linked to sensitive information for a client, resulted in less errors and friction with information in transit
  • Implemented TLS on to all internal and external services
  • Built new donation form for a non-profit client in the Luminate platform, outperformed base template within 2 months

Tech: WordPress (PHP), JavaScript/ES6, Angular, Luminate CMS, AWS

08-2015 - 02-2016

Software Developer

Alley Interactive

  • Assisted with site rebuild for a major news publication client using the WordPress VIP Platform
  • Refactor jQuery modules to a more prototype/object based structure & reduced event bubbling

Tech: WordPress (PHP), JavaScript, Vagrant

2013 - 2015

Jr. Software Engineer

CBS Local

  • Deployed new features on CBS Local multi-site build that deployed to over 24 markets, totaling 150 million users a day
  • Integrated newly acquired content partner, Eventful, into Radio.com's music charts feature
  • Keep code to host's standards for secure coding

Tech: WordPress (PHP), JavaScript