Ross Urban
Principal Software Engineer at Critical Start
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRoss Urban is a Principal Software Engineer based in Seattle with a decade of experience building secure, cloud-native systems for the payments and MDR (Managed Detection and Response) space. He combines deep expertise in Python, AWS, encryption/tokenization, and payment processing with hands-on product work at Critical Start where he helps turn telemetry into trust via a Trusted Behavior Registry. His background spans technical pre-sales and standards participation at RSA—bridging engineering, security architecture, and customer-facing solutions. Comfortable across SaaS, payments, and threat detection, he’s equally adept at designing secure systems and explaining their value to non-technical stakeholders. Ross’s early training in computer engineering and a minor in Chinese reflect a pattern of technical rigor paired with cross-cultural curiosity that informs how he designs and ships resilient, auditable software.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Business, Economics, Chinese, Business, Economics, Chinese at East China Normal UniversityBachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Chinese (minor), Math (minor), Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Chinese (minor), Math (minor) at University of Arkansas
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
django-framework6
django5
env4
python4
flask4
amqplib3
rabbitmq3
dotenv3
amqp-client3
restful-api3
environment-variables3
amqp2
12-factor2
rest2
indexing1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ross-urban/.idea
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:143 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
ross-urban/.dotfiles
Oct 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 1 year 2 months
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