Joe Merante
Security Engineer at Suspicious Minds LLC
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Merante is a Security and Privacy Engineer with 14 years of experience blending law, policy, and full‑stack software engineering to build pragmatic compliance and cybersecurity programs across startups and global enterprises. At Meta he co-owns engineering for regulatory response efforts—translating complex obligations like NIS 2, the EU AI Act, and U.S. Executive Orders into prioritized, risk‑based remediation and automated evidence collection. His background includes hands‑on privacy engineering at Google and Cruise, full‑stack development at Bloomberg Law and Simon & Schuster, and consulting work that ranges from pen testing to AWS Well‑Architected reviews. A non‑practicing New York Bar member with multiple IAPP certifications and an MS in Cybersecurity in progress, he pairs legal rigor with code‑level fluency to design scalable controls. Notably, he’s helped enforce least‑privileged access at scale (reducing access by ~85% in one initiative) and runs a consultancy that combines technical security tooling with policy and content work.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity at Georgia Institute of TechnologyB.A. Music Business Management, B.A. Music Business Management at Berklee College of MusicJ.D., J.D. at New York Law School
French
Github Skills (28)
redux9
pair-programming9
phoenix-channels9
agile9
elixir8
phoenix-framework8
retrospective8
react6
agile-development6
telegram-bot5
telegram4
python3
science3
alpha3
machine-learning3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joemerante/joemerante.dev
Jun 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 years 9 months
codeforamerica/prepared.ly
Apr 2012 - Jul 2013
Contributions:381 commits in 1 year 3 months
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