Mike Chen
Security Engineer at Meta
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Chen is a security engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building security tooling and hardening cloud-native platforms, currently focusing on FinTech security at Meta in Chicago. He has designed and shipped production security features across payments and consumer services at PayPal/Braintree, led AWS and Kubernetes security work at Remitly, and implemented secret management and container/image provenance solutions at Motorola. Comfortable in both software development and incident response, he blends backend engineering (Golang, PHP) with operational security practices and practical threat mitigation like webAuthn and DNS takeover prevention. An active contributor to open-source projects, he’s improved database-driven research software and enforces code quality via static checks, reflecting a detail-oriented approach to secure systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
DEC, pure and applied science, DEC, pure and applied science at Marianopolis CollegeBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering at McGill University
franch, English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
php10
database9
databases9
sql8
neuroscience6
data-sharing5
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
aces/Loris
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
LORIS is a web-accessible database solution for longitudinal multi-site studies.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 1 comment in 3 days
Contributions summary:Mike contributed to the LORIS database project by implementing a new function for creating labels within the NDB_Pages.class.inc file. They also merged a branch into the main codebase, incorporating changes related to the project's help documentation. Additionally, the user made formatting and code style adjustments, including running a phpcs check. They also added a check to ensure a search keyword exists before using it.
multi-siteneuroimagingscienceaccessibleloris
cyc115/noter
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:31 commits in 9 days
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