Sam Hong
Senior Application Security Engineer
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Hong is a Senior Application Security Engineer based in Irvine, California, with four years of hands-on experience bridging software development and security across startups and product companies. A UCSC computational mathematics graduate, he transitioned from full-stack and backend development roles—working with C#, .NET, React, SQL and cloud workflows—into application security at PayNearMe after engineering stints at Snyk and Fugue. He brings practical secure-by-design instincts from building transactional systems and e-commerce features to threat modeling, code-level hardening, and developer-focused security tooling. Comfortable moving between product teams and security programs, Sam pairs mathematical rigor with implementation experience to reduce risk without slowing delivery. An underrated strength is his background tutoring and cross-functional collaboration, which helps him translate complex security concepts into actionable guidance for engineers.
4 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (27)
regula8
terraform-templates7
compliance5
google-cloud5
aws5
rego5
agent5
gcp5
security5
devsecops4
infrastructure4
fugue4
terraform4
open-policy-agent4
devops4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
fugue/fugue-client
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
Command line client for the Fugue API
Contributions:4 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 months
apifuguecli
LuminalHQ/terraform-provider-aws
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Terraform AWS provider
Contributions:4 pushes, 6 branches in 18 days
providerterraform-modulesaws-terraform-providerterraformterraform-provider
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