Albert Yu
Co-Founder & CTO at Anzenna Inc
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlbert Yu is a security-focused technology leader and Co-Founder & CTO with over two decades of experience building secure systems and teams across Google, Atlassian, and Yahoo. He blends hands-on engineering—contributions to large-scale tools like Gryffin and cloud infrastructure code for Google Cloud—with deep security expertise spanning cryptography, incident response, protocol and code review, and risk governance. A part-time cryptographer with a PhD, he has a track record of turning research into production-ready defenses (e.g., tainted-PhantomJS XSS detection and an HTML context parser used for contextual templating). At Atlassian he led the design and delivery of a unified permission service on AWS; at Google he helped make GCP usage secure by default and worked on root CA responsibilities at GTS. Known for pragmatic, scalable controls and an ability to “see how systems break,” he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade security rigor. Based in California, he actively contributes to open source and prefers conversations that demonstrate practical security failures and controls learned from them.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Github Skills (22)
google-cloud-platform10
apidoc10
configuration-management10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
gcp10
terraformer10
go10
api10
aac10
infrastructure-as-code10
cloud-services10
json9
concurrency9
kubernetes-pods8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
yahoo/gryffin
Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Gryffin is a large scale web security scanning platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 14 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Albert primarily contributed to the core functionalities of the Gryffin platform, focusing on the Go codebase. Their work involved modifying the `gryffin.go`, `session.go` and `renderer/phantomjs.go` files, indicating involvement in the core scanning logic, session management, and rendering capabilities. They also worked on command-line tools and test scripts. These changes suggest an understanding of the platform's architecture and its interaction with rendering engines.
security-toolssecurityweb-securityscalelarge-scale
GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules
Aug 2019 - Jan 2020
Add Google Cloud Platform support to Terraform
Role in this project:Backend & Cloud Engineer
Backend & Cloud EngineerContributions:14 commits, 9 PRs, 21 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Albert primarily contributed to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) support for Terraform, as indicated by the repository's description and topic tags. Their work included refactoring compute API usage, aligning the project with updates to the GCP API and its related services. Additional contributions include supporting GKE in the terraform-mapper for conversion, and modifying configurations related to authorized networks for cluster management.
golanggcpappenginegooglecloudgooglecloudplatform
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