Mariya Shapran
Principal Security Engineer at University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
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Top SchoolMariya Shapran is a Principal Security Engineer with 12+ years of experience blending software development, QA, and security leadership, currently leading security efforts at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her career progressed through hands-on engineering and supervisory roles into senior security and principal-level positions, reflecting deep expertise in security policies, release management, test automation, and quality processes. She brings a strong background in project and product management, having driven cross-functional quality and compliance programs across academia and industry. Based in Fairbanks, she pairs technical rigor with practical governance—translating complex security and quality requirements into auditable, repeatable procedures. Unusually for a security leader, her academic interests span remote sensing and linguistics alongside computer science, informing a multidisciplinary approach to problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Studies, Computer Science, Remote Sensing, Linguistics, Graduate Studies, Computer Science, Remote Sensing, Linguistics at University of Alaska FairbanksBachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems at University of PhoenixClinical Research Coordinator, Clinical Research Coordinator at Boston University
English, French, Hebrew, Russian
Github Skills (14)
web-search10
web-application9
angular8
insar6
geodesy5
asf5
geology5
testrail3
test-results2
integrate2
jenkins-plugin1
jenkins1
jenkins-api-plugin1
testing1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mshapran/rsmas_insar
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
RSMAS InSAR code
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
rsmasinsarfurryhaikudnd-tools
asfadmin/ASF_MapReady
Aug 2013 - May 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 9 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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