Dave King — Security Engineer

I work to find places of leverage where my efforts will have large impacts on reducing the risk for the companies I work for. This includes doing things like focusing my efforts on areas of companies or products that are most risky, writing automation that scales my impact, and taking team lead roles in each company where I have the opportunity to help drive team initiatives and mentor newer people in their careers. In most of my roles I've split my time between designing and writing code and partnering with others in the company to reduce risk. For the first several years of my career I focused on finding vulnerabilities through penetration testing and writing automation. I did much of this work while working in banking where the stakes are high. This experience has been invaluable as I've moved to roles that have been focused on building software and services that are resilient to attacks. At VMware I contributed security improvements for nearly all of their core products that they ship to their hundreds of thousands of costumers. Additionally I started a widespread developer education program to help the engineers at VMware better understand security issues and see where they could improve. This included doing a lot of internal speaking on security for groups of hundreds of engineers and organizing and running a large internal security conference that included both internal and external speakers. At Netflix I've played a few roles including long term partnerships and consulting with teams on some of the highest security leverage areas at Netflix including payments, CI/CD infrastructure and OpenConnect (Netflix's internal CDN). I've also had the opportunity to do various shorter term consulting work with almost every part of Netflix including the studio and other parts of streaming, including helping to write software that protects our customers from fraud. Over the last few years I've been primarily focused on helping the security teams at Netflix better understand the assets we need to secure, know where problems exists, and better respond when issues arise. To do this I've had a primary role in helping to build a scalable new system to keep track of the massive amount assets Netflix uses. Additionally I've played a primary role is designing and building a highly scalable scanning infrastructure to help us understand the security properties of the Netflix's infrastructure better. This work has had broad impact on many security efforts at Netflix and has been a key reason the team has been able to scale as the company has grown.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Security Engineer specializing in SaaS with a focus on risk management and automation.

Location: San Jose, California, United States

Experience: 27 yrs 1 mo