Eric Mak
Security Engineer at Figure
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Mak is a pragmatic security engineer and leader with 13+ years of experience building enterprise security programs that reduce risk without impeding business velocity. He has led high-impact teams at companies like Grammarly, Snap, and TerraTrue, driving endpoint, SaaS governance, IAM, and insider-threat capabilities while partnering closely with IT, Legal, and Engineering. Early work on Google’s incident response and forensic tooling during an APT-heavy era gave him deep operational chops and a bias for visibility and composure in high-stakes incidents. Eric blends hands-on technical design—secure-by-default controls, detection engineering, and AI to reduce analyst load—with organizational delivery, including SOC 2 and M&A security integration. He also contributes to open-source forensic tooling (notably plaso/psort enhancements), reflecting a continued commitment to practical, production-grade security tooling. Based in San Jose, he’s known as a calm, credible voice that aligns security as a business enabler.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Business: MIS; Minor Computer Science, BS Business: MIS; Minor Computer Science at San José State University
English
Github Skills (7)
plist10
time-line10
text-parsing10
parsing10
computer-forensics10
python10
error-handling9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
log2timeline/plaso
Nov 2012 - Dec 2014
Super timeline all the things
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 1 issue in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributes to the `plaso` repository, focusing on enhancing the `psort.py` tool and the `l2t_csv` output module. Their work involves adding features like versioning and implementing logging and error handling. The user also incorporates changes from the `master` branch and addresses test-related modifications. The commits reveal the addition of a plist interface and parser for the parsing of plist files.
all-the-thingstimelineforensicsparsing
MicrosoftDocs/sysinternals
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Content for sysinternals.com
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 17 days
sysinternals
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