Andrew Sorensen
Staff Security Engineer at Airbnb
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Sorensen is a Staff Security Engineer with 11 years of experience applying software engineering discipline to application security at scale, currently focused on protecting Airbnb's platform. He blends hands-on engineering—risk-reducing solutions for secrets management, authentication/authorization, and vulnerability remediation—with program-level ownership of bug bounty operations and security review processes. At Twitter he drove cross-organizational adoption of security standards, authored runbooks and policies, and helped operationalize security into development lifecycles. Earlier work as a consultant and web programmer gave him practical experience in threat modeling, code review, penetration testing, and running secure web infrastructure. Based in Seattle, he pairs deep technical proficiency with clear documentation and training skills to make security both practical and measurable. An unspoken strength is his ability to translate high-risk technical issues into organizationally actionable remediation plans that reduce long-tail operational risk.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of WashingtonTacoma Community College
Github Skills (53)
connected10
java10
donejs10
remote-server10
dedicated9
siemens9
iot-application9
arcus9
iot-platform9
smartthings9
websocket-client9
swift8
starscream8
bacnet8
websocket8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
AndrewX192/checkthatcert
Nov 2014 - Feb 2016
Code samples that correctly check the remote server's SSL certificate
Contributions:57 commits, 3 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 3 months
remote-serverssl-certificate
arcus-smart-home/arcusplatform
Apr 2019 - Sep 2021
Java Based Arcus Platform and Agent Components
Contributions:657 commits, 306 PRs, 134 pushes in 2 years 5 months
java
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