Kandy Phan
Principal Research Development Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolKandy Phan is a Principal Research Development Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories with eight years of focused experience in software and systems analysis, penetration testing, and infosec research. She leads red team operations and develops practical security solutions that bridge research and operational needs for high-assurance environments. Trained with an MS in Computer Science (Information Assurance) from the Naval Postgraduate School, she combines rigorous academic grounding with hands-on offensive security expertise. Based in Albuquerque, she champions a positive, continuous-learning approach to information security and shares insights through public talks and slide repositories. Her work emphasizes pragmatic threat modeling and reproducible testing workflows that improve organizational resilience. Colleagues know her for relentlessly curious problem-solving and turning complex attack paths into actionable defenses.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS Computer Science Information Assurance, Master of Science - MS Computer Science Information Assurance at Naval Postgraduate SchoolGithub contributions (4)
kphan451/slides
Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
kphan451/ctf_practice
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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