Eleanor Saitta
Principal Consultant at Systems Structure Ltd
United States
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Top SchoolEleanor Saitta is a Principal Consultant and fractional Chief Security Officer with 20 years of experience building security teams, programs, and architectures for startups, NGOs, and enterprise clients. She specializes in systems-oriented security design, threat modeling, and product security, having led initiatives like Etsy’s first internal PKI and Kubernetes deployments and built security strategy as a sole architect. Her work spans high-risk contexts—from counter-censorship projects to whistleblowing platforms—bringing pragmatic, principles-driven interventions that balance resilience and failure modes. Eleanor has a track record of creating processes and tooling to raise security standards, including peer review boards and audit management for humanitarian open-source projects. Known for recruiting “barbarians” and complicating narratives, she blends technical depth with strategic mentoring and operational guidance. Based in the United States, she combines hands-on engineering, policy-savvy collaboration, and a systems-thinking approach to deliver robust, auditable security outcomes.
20 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Case Western Reserve University
Github Skills (14)
usb-devices7
usb7
security6
linux4
sanitizer4
python4
launchpad3
grid2
controller2
sega2
jtag2
firmware2
autonomy1
sandstorm1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
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