Sam Havron
Privacy Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSam Havron is a Privacy Engineer at Meta with 11 years of experience building privacy-aware infrastructure and tools, and serving on privacy incident on-call rotations. With an academic foundation from Cornell and UVA, Sam’s research—published at IEEE S&P and USENIX Security and covered by the NYTimes, WIRED, and MIT Technology Review—focused on protecting survivors of intimate partner violence and led to the creation of a first-of-its-kind Clinic to End Tech Abuse. Previously a security software engineer at Squarespace and contributor to projects like Netflix’s Lemur certificate manager, Sam blends systems-level backend engineering with rigorous input validation and secure plugin design. Based in New York, they advocate for democratizing security and privacy for underserved communities and bring a rare mix of production-grade engineering, academic research, and community-centered impact.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Virginia
English
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Github Skills (10)
aws10
validation10
python10
validations10
security10
flask-ask9
flask9
ssl9
api-design8
django4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/lemur
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Repository for the Lemur Certificate Manager
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 47 commits, 10 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on validating plugin options server-side within the Lemur Certificate Manager. Their contributions involved modifying code in `lemur/destinations/views.py` and `lemur/sources/views.py` to include input validation rules, and updating `lemur/schemas.py` to handle sub-plugins. They also worked on the `lemur/plugins` to improve the validation of the plugin options. This work focused on ensuring proper data handling and security within the Lemur platform.
pythonsslssl-certificatessecuritytls
havron/web
Apr 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:151 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
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