Neal Harris

CEO

Mill Valley, California, United States16 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Director of Security with extensive leadership experience.
  • Launched Square's first security bug bounty program.
  • Led diverse engineering teams in product development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in cybersecurity and software engineering within the SaaS industry.

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Cloud ComputingComputer SecurityCryptographyEthical HackerLinuxMathematicsPythonSaaSSecuritySoftware DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringWeb Application Security

Experience

Persona

Director Of Security

Sep 2020Present · 5 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

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On Hiatus

May 2020Sep 2020 · 4 mos

Fortanix

Engineering Director

Jul 2019May 2020 · 10 mos · Mountain View, California

  • US Engineering Lead: led diverse team of product and devops engineers
  • Introduced and led quarterly engineering planning company-wide
  • Primary liaison between Engineering and Product
  • Coordinated with external partners (both industry and government) to understand new product requirements, and support customers
  • Responsible for delivery of Self-Defending KMS, IBM Data Shield, and Enclave Manager products

Helix

Partner Security Engineer

Jul 2018Jun 2019 · 11 mos

  • Provided security guidance to external partners seeking to publish apps on Helix's marketplace. Evaluated partners' corporate, infrastructure, and application security postures. Suggested targeted improvements to partners' security programs (both before and after their product's launch on the Helix Marketplace).

Square

2 roles

Security Engineering Manager

Feb 2015Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • · Led 5 security engineering teams (26 total people), including security software engineers, engineering managers, and a product manager.
  • · Responsibilities included: backend security infrastructure, hardware/firmware security, mobile security, remote attestation and tamper detection, privacy.
  • · Worked closely with members of the executive team and other senior leaders to define security strategy for new products, as well as security diligence for acquisition targets.

Application Security Engineer and Manager

Apr 2013Feb 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • · First AppSec hire.
  • · Consulted with product teams across Square, delivering targeted technical security guidance.
  • · Identified and remediated numerous security flaws in products, ranging from web applications to the payments stack.
  • · Launched Square’s first ever security bug bounty.
  • · Led small team of AppSec Engineers.

Salesforce.com

Product Security Engineer

Jun 2011Apr 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco

  • Evaluated submissions to Salesforce AppExchange, consulted with partners to improve their security practices and remediate vulnerabilities in their submissions
  • Provided security consultation to internal Salesforce platform engineering teams

Center for communications research

Adjunct Research Staff

Jan 2006Jan 2008 · 2 yrs · La Jolla, CA

  • Spent summers at SCAMP doing cryptanalysis.

Education

UC San Diego

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) — Mathematics - Number Theory and Representation Theory

Jan 2005Jan 2011

Stanford University

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) — Mathematics and Symbolic Systems

Jan 2001Jan 2005

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