Kayla Skates
Senior Information Security Engineer
San Diego Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Taft is a Senior Information Security Engineer with 11 years of experience blending secure software engineering, application security consulting, and hands-on vulnerability research. Currently at Google, he has a track record of improving product security for Fortune 100s and startups through source code review, threat modeling, fuzzing, and exploit development. He founded One Up Security, disclosed high-profile vulnerabilities (including a remote code execution in Counter-Strike), and has presented and been awarded CVEs for device-level privilege escalations. Based in San Diego, he approaches security as a fundamental human right and pairs practical secure-coding guidance with offensive expertise—frequently uncovering subtle crypto and memory-corruption issues that larger teams miss.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at Monroe Community College
Github Skills (53)
ide10
lighttable10
editor10
clojure10
clojurescript10
css9
nodejs9
chrome9
html9
profiling8
javascript8
electron8
simulator8
v87
instrumentation7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
justintaft/LightTable
Jan 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:193 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
idelightlight-table
justintaft/org-clock-split
Aug 2018 - Mar 2020
Split org-mode CLOCK entry while preserving time.
Contributions:21 commits, 4 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 7 months
org-mode
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