Joshua Tan
Research Scientist at Amazon
Greater Boston United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJoshua Tan is a research scientist in security and privacy with 13 years of experience blending data analysis and software engineering, currently conducting applied research at Amazon after a postdoc at Carnegie Mellon’s CyLab. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon and has a track record of moving academic research into practical systems through internships at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and UC Berkeley and engineering experience at Thomson Reuters. Joshua’s work spans threat modeling, privacy-preserving analytics, and secure systems design, with hands-on skills across research, prototyping, and productionization. Based in Greater Boston, he brings a rare combination of rigorous academic training and industry-focused implementation, often translating complex security research into deployable tools and data-driven insights.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at North Dakota State University
Github Skills (37)
journal10
cli8
passwords8
cups8
command-line7
plaintext7
password-strength7
python7
shell7
meter6
cracking6
password-generator5
gerrit5
rdio5
sensu5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jtan189/backup-rdio-collection
Feb 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:17 commits, 7 pushes, 3 issues in 1 year 2 months
CoNetPad/CoNetPad
Aug 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:142 commits in 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.