Maximilian Burkhardt is a security engineering leader with 13 years of experience building infrastructure, corporate security, and detection systems for high-scale SaaS companies. He has led and grown teams at Figma and Airbnb, founding their infrastructure and corporate security programs and delivering projects like AWS multi-account transitions, zero-trust corporate access, and automated endpoint baselines. At Airbnb he drove network segmentation and cross-functional permission redesigns for thousands of microservices, and he served on incident on-call as a Sysop for two years. Now a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI in San Francisco, he combines hands-on systems engineering with product-minded security architecture. Notably, he has practical experience deploying alternative secure computing platforms (Chromebooks) and building automated remediation systems that reduce human toil. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from UC Berkeley and favors pragmatic, devops-oriented approaches to detection and response.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Contributions:20 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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Maximilian Burkhardt - Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI