Anastasia Shuba
Staff Privacy Engineer at DuckDuckGo
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnastasia Shuba is a Staff Privacy Engineer with 12 years of experience building privacy-first software and leading cross-functional teams from research to production. Based in Irvine, she leads DuckDuckGo’s Privacy Engineering team, shaping privacy review processes, designing solutions across marketing, data science, and quality monitoring, and hiring and developing talent. Her background blends deep academic research—PhD in Computer Engineering from UC Irvine—with hands-on mobile and network security work, including contributions to the high-profile DuckDuckGo Android app where she improved performance, thread safety, and CPU monitoring. Known for turning privacy research into practical, auditable product features, she brings both systems-level engineering chops and a pragmatic focus on maintainability and operational impact.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
Russian, Ukrainian
Github Skills (13)
android-developers10
android-developer10
kotlin10
android-sdk10
vpn10
android10
performance-optimization10
network-programming9
thread-safety9
javas8
java8
testing7
github4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/Android
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
DuckDuckGo Android App
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:62 reviews, 21 commits, 52 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Anastasia primarily contributed to the DuckDuckGo Android app, focusing on performance improvements and bug fixes. Their work included addressing thread safety issues in network operations using Kotlin, optimizing upload speeds by removing bottlenecks in hostname extraction, and improving code maintainability through refactoring. They also implemented a CPU usage monitoring feature and fixed an issue related to exception handling in the VPN.
translationsduckduckgoandroidandroid-appduckduckgo-android
nshuba/nomoads
Jul 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 11 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 5 months
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