Safwan Khan
Staff Security Engineer, TLM (Technical Lead Manager) at Uber
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSafwan Khan is a Staff Security Engineer and technical lead manager based in Austin with 11 years of experience securing cloud and application platforms at scale. He has led Product Security and Security Guidance teams at Uber and Microsoft, owning threat modeling, engineering review design, pre-launch security gates, and post-design validation for high-risk features. His background spans hands-on secure development and red-team breach operations, including founding a Breach and Attack Simulation initiative on Azure. Early career work on Magento/eBay and contributions to the popular magento2-sample-data repo reflect deep backend and application-security roots alongside practical tooling and CI/build fixes. Comfortable bridging engineering and leadership, he runs Security Champions programs and builds internal tools that make security reviews repeatable and developer-friendly. He holds advanced computer science training from UT Dallas and brings a research-minded approach to pragmatic security engineering.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at The University of Texas at Arlington
English, Bengali
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Github Skills (6)
php10
magento10
console10
command-line10
mysql8
testing6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
magento/magento2-sample-data
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Magento 2 Sample Data
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Safwan primarily contributed to the Magento 2 sample data repository by implementing and modifying sample data installation commands and related classes. Their work involved creating a console command for sample data installation, including changes to the installer app and the observer manager. They also updated various module setup files, particularly related to tax, review, and target rule modules, and also made fixes to address build failures.
magento-extensionsample-datamagento-2magento2-modulemagento2
magento/magento2
Apr 2015 - Nov 2015
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Contributions:220 commits, 8 comments in 7 months
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