Hana Watson
Security Engineer at TravelPerk
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHana Watson is a Security Engineer based in London with five years' experience strengthening application and platform security at high-growth tech companies. After an early application security stint at Thought Machine, she returned there as a Security Engineer before joining TravelPerk to focus on securing distributed systems and developer workflows. A first-class BEng graduate in Joint Mathematics and Computing from Imperial College London, she combines formal analytical training with hands-on threat modeling and code-level review. Her background includes teaching assistant work, indicating clear technical communication skills and a knack for mentoring engineers on secure-by-design practices. Notably, she has experience across both fintech-grade and travel-scale environments, giving her perspective on balancing rigorous controls with rapid product delivery. Practical, methodical, and curious, she brings a math-infused approach to pragmatic security engineering.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Joint Mathematics and Computing Mathematics and Computer Science, BEng Joint Mathematics and Computing Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College LondonSt Catherine's School, Bramley
English, british sign language, Spanish, German
Github Skills (26)
cve10
vulnerability9
security9
automated-build9
sca9
vulnerabilities9
security-vulnerability9
database8
api8
metal8
opengl8
portable7
abstraction7
gpu7
wgsl7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hanawatson/wgslrunner
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 16 pushes in 4 months
hanawatson/wgslgenerator
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:15 pushes in 1 month
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