Zhi Wei F.

Product Manager

United States8 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in application security and threat modeling.
  • Led significant security initiatives at Dropbox.
  • Passionate about mentoring and developing security best practices.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned expert in SaaS application security with a focus on threat management and compliance.

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Skills

Core Skills

Application SecurityThreat ModelingSoftware DevelopmentOperations Engineering

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesApplication Security ArchitectureAutomationBug Bounty ProgramC++Community OutreachComplianceContainer SecurityDashboard DevelopmentData AnalysisDatabase AdministrationEvent PlanningFraud PreventionInformation SecurityJava

About

Zhi is a Senior Staff Product Security engineer at Marqeta with a wealth of experience in security, information technology, ad tech, and fintech industries. Zhi has a passion for safeguarding systems and applications, and is skilled in coding and mentoring others. Previously, having worked at Dropbox, Sailthru, and Veracode, Zhi honed his expertise in product security. Zhi is always looking for new opportunities to learn and grow in the field, and is excited to develop new methods to harden systems without compromising speed.

Experience

Marqeta

2 roles

Senior Staff Product Security Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2024Jul 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · New York, United States

Staff Product Security Engineer

Aug 2022Mar 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · New York, United States

Dropbox

Senior Product Security Engineer

Oct 2020Aug 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos · New York, New York, United States

  • ◦ Prevention Engineering: Established the foundation of the Application Security teams Prevention Engineering Strategy
  • and Developed a strategy focusing on Secure by Default frameworks, enabling development teams to adhere to best practices
  • seamlessly across the organization without being burdened by granular configuration details.
  • ◦ Eradicated OWASP Top 10, PII Leakage: Designed, implemented, and led a team of engineers in redacting personally
  • identifiable information (PII) from application logs using structured logging and AWS Macie.
  • ◦ Container Security - Nsjail: Fine tune nsjail config, a cli tool that leverages Linux namespaces, to achieve isolation and
  • securely convert PDF in the Hellosign Business Unit
  • ◦ Tech Lead - Hellosign Business Unit: Worked together with external stakeholders to align on shared priorities and led
  • the team planning, creation, and execution of the teams Quarterly OKRs and yearly roadmap.
  • ◦ Automation through Intake form service: Developed a Python Flask service for gathering internal stakeholder requests
  • which automated the creation of Jira tickets with correct labels and priorities, streamlining the on-call process.
  • ◦ Threat Modeling / Consultation: Evaluated implementation designs for security weaknesses and provided alternatives
  • with stronger security controls for both Dropbox and HelloSign development teams.
  • ◦ Fraud and DDOS Prevention: Significantly improved HelloSigns security posture by integrating Arkose captcha with the
  • user registration flow.
  • ◦ Maintaining Compliance: Collaborated closely with the legal team to ensure new features and services released to
  • production met compliance standards such as HIPAA, GDPR, and others.
Application SecurityThreat ModelingContainer SecurityAutomationFraud PreventionCompliance

Sailthru

Application Security Engineer

Sep 2019Oct 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · New York, New York, United States

  • ◦ Bugbounty Program: Collaborated with Bugcrowd to define the bug bounty program’s scope, leading the confirmation of
  • reports and the mitigation of vulnerabilities reported.
  • ◦ Penetration Testing - Purple Team: Teamed up with a third-party vendor for black box testing against production
  • infrastructure, ensuring the system’s resilience against users with malicious intent.
  • ◦ Integrated with Signal Science WAF: Installed a Web Application Firewall (WAF) on all servers receiving external web
  • traffic, enhancing security by preventing malicious traffic from compromising the servers.
  • ◦ Mentoring: Provided mentorship by teaching security best practices to engineering sprint teams and sharing bug bounty
  • reports to help teams avoid similar vulnerabilities in the future.
Bug Bounty ProgramPenetration TestingWeb Application FirewallMentoringApplication Security

Veracode

3 roles

Software Developer - Full Stack

Jan 2018Aug 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Completed wide range of software development and programming tasks.
  • Took part in monthly grooming sessions to make estimations and prioritize the backlog.
  • Analyze software usability and performance, recommended changes to improve functionality.
  • Practice Agile methodologies through Gitlab CI/CD piplines
  • Perform security reviews for our code changes to ensure secure production code.
  • Migrated an AngularJS service to Angular 5.
  • Created additional features/permissions in both monolith and microservice code base
Software DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesSecurity Reviews

Operations Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2017Jan 2018 · 1 yr

  • Introduced methods that enhanced the team’s workflow, release process and product quality.
  • Help build and enhance highly available and scalable dashboards used by management.
  • Contributed software engineering expertise in the development of products deployment cycle.
  • Worked closely with DevSecOps team to test and maintain product quality.
  • Analyzed complex data to help optimize the product’s user experience for customers.
  • Scripted in python to automate part of the data mining that was used to generate reports.
  • Analyzed run times and features before releasing deployment to production.
Workflow EnhancementDashboard DevelopmentData AnalysisOperations Engineering

Application Security Analyst

Aug 2016Jan 2017 · 5 mos

  • Conducted FP/Valid software security research on Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
  • Manually ran failed scans with latest branch of the static engine.
  • Reviewed past C++ and JavaScript scans for better detection in automation (REC)
  • Helped PMs’ and CSMs’ with their customer’s application through weekly meetings.
  • Presented findings in a monthly meeting with upper management on patterns found.
Software Security ResearchStatic AnalysisApplication Security

Education

Boston University

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