Elizabeth Stirling
Senior Security Software Engineer at Airtable
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElizabeth Stirling is a Senior Security Software Engineer with five years of hands-on experience securing cloud-native platforms and applications across major tech companies including Google, Twitter, and Airtable. She specializes in Kubernetes security, secrets and key management, and platform-wide logging and vulnerability triage, having driven migrations to cloud Secret Managers and centralized logging at scale. Her background spans both offensive and defensive work—from blackbox pentests and Android malware research to building authentication, session invalidation, and access token flows in Sourcegraph’s backend. At Google she served as a security SME for connection management and at Twitter she led threat modeling and policy strategy for GKE clusters, demonstrating a knack for cross-team influence. Preparing to move into leadership, she pairs deep technical execution with mentoring experience and an eye for practical, auditable controls that meet compliance needs. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, she brings a pragmatic blend of engineering, security ops, and product-focused risk reduction.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Washington
English
Github Skills (20)
useraccounts10
back-end-development10
account-manager10
user-authentication10
authentication10
integrations10
e-mail10
user-management10
go10
account-management10
management10
backend10
emailjs10
postgresql9
database-migrations9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sourcegraph/sourcegraph-public-snapshot
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Code AI platform with Code Search & Cody
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 9 commits, 17 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Elizabeth made significant contributions to the backend codebase, particularly focusing on user authentication and account management features. Their work included implementing password reset functionality, incorporating session invalidation for security, and integrating email notifications for important account updates. Furthermore, the user modified GraphQL resolvers, which likely involved updating user creation and access token management. The changes also involved database interactions and migration modifications.
sourcegraphcode-generationrepo-type-maindeveloper-toolslsif-enabled
sourcegraph/about
Jul 2020 - May 2021
Sourcegraph blog, feature announcements, and website (about.sourcegraph.com)
Contributions:67 reviews, 24 commits, 35 PRs in 9 months
announcementsreactsourcegraph
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