Charlie Belmer
Director, Security Engineering at DuckDuckGo
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharlie Belmer is a senior privacy and security engineering leader with 18+ years of experience building resilient, scalable systems across startups and large enterprises. Currently Senior Director of Privacy & Security Engineering at DuckDuckGo, he blends hands-on programming craft with strategic security leadership to drive secure-by-design SaaS and product architectures. He founded and led SecDevOps at GE Power, creating security automation, S-SDLC programs, and overseeing massive Oracle and ERP estates while reducing delivery cycles dramatically. Charlie has a history of shipping practical engineering solutions—from database automation and cloud consolidation to OIDC and routing optimization for clients—and he still treats programming as an expressive art. A longtime advocate for online freedom, he has contributed to the Tor project and writes regularly about privacy and security at nullsweep.com. Based in Greater Boston, he excels at building high-performing technical teams and translating complex security requirements into measurable business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (22)
duckduckgo9
nosql-injection9
perl8
docker-desktop7
mongodb6
javascript6
artemis5
security5
injection5
security-scanner4
nodejs4
gulp-plugin4
cli4
decode4
utility3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Charlie-belmer/netmask-privacy-plugin
Jun 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
Charlie-belmer/Docker-security-example
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
A simple example for illustrating security best practices with Docker
Contributions:5 commits in 6 days
securitydocker-composedocker
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