Awn U
Security Infrastructure Engineer at Monzo Bank
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAwn U is a Security Infrastructure Engineer with 11 years of experience building secure systems and tooling, currently working at Monzo and co-founding RedLayers. He combines a strong academic background in Mathematics and Computer Science (MEng, University of Bristol) with hands-on cryptography and memory safety work, notably implementing core cryptographic primitives and secure memory handling in the memguard project. His background spans bug bounty hunting, freelance engineering, and product-facing internships, giving him a practical, adversarial mindset toward real-world vulnerabilities. Awn’s contributions to resilient tooling like the mole SSH tunnel project show a focus on robustness and secure key management beyond pure research. He brings an engineer’s rigor to infrastructure security while still shipping production-ready code and tests.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Mathematics and Computer Science, MEng, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Bristol
English, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi
Github Skills (9)
golang10
testing10
memory-management10
go10
cryptography10
ssh10
security10
cli9
crypto9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
awnumar/memguard
Mar 2019 - Jun 2022
Secure software enclave for storage of sensitive information in memory.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:55 releases, 5 reviews, 233 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Awn primarily worked on the implementation of core cryptographic functionalities within the project. Their contributions involved porting data representation APIs and implementing seal/open functionality. The user also introduced and tested several methods related to secure memory management such as copying, wiping, and scrambling, demonstrating a focus on security and data protection. They also added tests to ensure the functions work as expected.
golangcryptographymemorysecuresecurity
davrodpin/mole
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
CLI application to create ssh tunnels focused on resiliency and user experience.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 16 days
Contributions summary:Awn primarily focused on improving the internal workings of the `mole` application. They updated project dependencies, including libraries like `memguard` and `logrus`, and addressed memory-related issues. Furthermore, the user fixed a segmentation fault and memory leak within the `key` module. They also refactored and improved the key handling, particularly regarding passphrases and the secure storage of sensitive data, demonstrating a focus on robustness and security.
golangport-forwardsport-forwardingport-forwardssh
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