Alan Willis
Security Engineer at Google
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Willis is a Security Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating secure, scalable infrastructure for gaming, media, and cloud platforms, currently focusing on cloud security at Google. He has led security architecture and engineering at Sony Pictures and rebuilt cost‑efficient detection and response pipelines at Riot Games, blending infrastructure-as-code with threat modeling and automated compliance. Alan contributes to open-source networking tooling such as Edgio/vflow, improving Kafka reliability and backend robustness, reflecting a pragmatic approach to observability and messaging systems. Based in Los Angeles, he combines deep operational roots—from ticketing platform ops to global game infrastructure—with a formal cybersecurity education, enabling him to translate complex security controls into reliable, automated systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems, Information Systems at Drexel UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Bachelor of Science - BS, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance at Western Governors University
Github Skills (8)
golang10
kafka10
go10
network9
ip8
netflow8
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Edgio/vflow
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Enterprise Network Flow Collector (IPFIX, sFlow, Netflow)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alan primarily focused on backend development tasks within the `vflow` repository. Their contributions involved refactoring and renaming Kafka-related files, updating Go module dependencies, and implementing error handling within the Kafka producer. They also made changes to the Kafka configuration and addressed an unhandled error, demonstrating a good understanding of the system's messaging architecture. These changes suggest an effort to improve reliability and maintainability.
yangipv4sdnmonitoringcitrix
RiotGamesCookbooks/dirsrv-cookbook
Jun 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:52 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 7 months
cookbookdirectorychef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
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