Joel Weinberger
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Weinberger is a security-focused engineer with 13 years of experience building defenses across startups and large tech companies, currently working on developer security at Anthropic. He was the first full-time security hire and head of security engineering at Lightspark, and previously led security engineering and technical teams at Snap after contributing to Chrome security at Google. Joel holds a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley under Dawn Song and brings deep expertise in web security, programming languages, and systems. An active open-source contributor, he has helped improve W3C Web Application Security specifications, blending technical writing with practical implementation. Based in Los Angeles, he combines research rigor with hands-on operational experience designing security teams and scalable infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph. D. Computer Science, Ph. D. Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyB.S. and M.S. Computer Science and History, B.S. and M.S. Computer Science and History at Brown University
Github Skills (5)
content-security-policy10
sec10
documentation10
web-application-security10
html9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
w3c/webappsec
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Web Application Security Working Group repo
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Technical Writer
Front-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:74 commits, 42 PRs, 23 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Joel primarily contributed to the documentation and specification within the webappsec repository. Their work included adding new sections, clarifying existing content, and correcting grammatical errors within the specifications. The user also made minor code adjustments, such as sprinkling HTTPS and adding a note about content negotiation. Their contributions centered around improving the clarity, accuracy, and completeness of the specifications.
web-application-securityapplication-securitysecurityweb-applicationattestation
w3c/webappsec-suborigins
Dec 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:143 commits, 55 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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