Drew Dean
Sr. Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Dean is a senior engineer based in Seattle with nearly two decades of professional experience and deep expertise in computer security. He has held senior technical and research leadership roles across industry and government labs—including Amazon, Qualcomm, DARPA, and multiple tenures at SRI International—bridging program management, research, and product engineering. His background spans hands-on research (PARC, SRI) and operational leadership (Sr. Director at Qualcomm, Program Manager at DARPA), enabling him to translate advanced security research into deployable systems. Drew holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton and a BSc in Math/Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon, a combination that fuels both rigorous analysis and practical engineering. Notably, he repeatedly returns to mission-driven research organizations, suggesting a preference for tackling hard, foundational problems with real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, BerkeleyBSc, Math/Computer Science, BSc, Math/Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (1)
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Github contributions (2)
SRI-CSL/sri-glibc-malloc
Dec 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:14 commits in 6 months
aas-integration/integration-test
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 5 days
all-toolstestingintegration-test
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