Armen Tashjian
Staff Security Engineer at Airbnb
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArmen Tashjian is a Staff Security Engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience designing and operationalizing security programs across consumer and critical-infrastructure environments. He has led corporate security initiatives at Pinterest and Yelp and now drives high-impact engineering work at Airbnb, blending technical ownership with cross-team leadership. His background includes building automated threat intelligence pipelines, SOAR integrations, and network access controls at Southern California Edison, reflecting comfort with both cloud-scale and industrial use cases. As a back-end contributor to the well-known CRITs threat-research platform, he has hands-on experience stabilizing and extending security APIs and data ingestion paths. Armen pairs a Management Information Systems degree and a Computer Science minor with a practitioner’s focus on pragmatic, auditable solutions that scale.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Science (BS), Management Information Systems, General at California State University, Long Beach
Github Skills (11)
api10
mongodb10
back-end-development10
python10
apidoc10
mongodb-database10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
object-oriented-programming8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
crits/crits
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
CRITs - Collaborative Research Into Threats
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 24 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Armen primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the CRITs project, focusing on API enhancements and core handler functions. Their work involved modifying existing handlers for actions, descriptions, and statuses, as well as implementing new functions to integrate with the API. Additionally, the user exposed indicator and top-level object handler functions to improve API access and resolve integration issues. They also addressed issues related to the POST requests of indicators and RawData, demonstrating a focus on API stability and usability.
securitycollaborative-researchcybersecuritycollaborativethreats
armtash/streamalert
Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:44 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 1 month
alertanalyticsdata-analysisrealtimerealtime-data
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