Christopher Thompson
Senior Security Engineer at LunaSec
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Thompson is a Senior Security Engineer with 12 years of experience securing large-scale systems, currently protecting Figma’s data infrastructure. A co-founder of LunaSec (YC S19), he builds open-source security tooling and products that tackle supply-chain and web-input risks, with hands-on expertise remediating high-impact vulnerabilities like Log4Shell. Previously he hardened mobile and application security at Uber—preventing revenue loss through platform-level fraud signaling and creating developer education and automation for vulnerability triage. His background includes vulnerability research and embedded network service development (notably contributing C network/auth code to OSIRIS Lab’s Hack Night), reflecting deep systems and low-level coding skills. Based in Greater Seattle, he combines startup leadership with enterprise security rigor and a penchant for playful curiosity—ask him about the “marvelous breadfish.”
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at New York UniversityPoolesville High School
Github Skills (7)
c1710
authentication10
user-authentication10
c1110
network-programming10
security9
system-design8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
osirislab/Hack-Night
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
Hack Night is an open weekly training session run by the OSIRIS lab.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 2 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Christopher added code, specifically a C program, to the `hack-night` repository. The code implements a network service with user authentication, article listing, reading, and writing functionalities. The contributions included developing features within the service, likely demonstrating an understanding of network programming and potentially security aspects, given the nature of the repository and the provided code snippet.
application-securitynightvulnerability-managementpenetration-testingtraining
breadchris/badstuff
Nov 2017 - Jun 2022
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Contributions:3 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 7 months
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