Sam Manzer
Offensive Security Engineer at Meta
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Manzer is a Staff Offensive Security Engineer based in Austin with 12 years of experience blending deep software engineering and hands-on security practice at scale. After a decade-plus career spanning high-throughput backend systems at Uber and advanced computational research during a Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, he pivoted to offensive security, rising through Meta’s red team to lead proactive threat discovery and mitigation. He designs pragmatic defense-in-depth architectures, conducts targeted code reviews that uncover complex auth and injection flaws, and has built secure, large-scale developer environments and learning platforms. Sam’s background in high-performance scientific computing gives him a unique lens for reasoning about system correctness and exploitability, and he routinely bridges research-grade rigor with production security operations.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry (A.C.S. Certified), Bachelor of Science, Chemistry (A.C.S. Certified) at Ohio Northern UniversityPh.D., Chemistry, Ph.D., Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (104)
prometheus-exporter10
operator10
monitoring10
kubernetes-cluster10
kubernetes-operator10
kubernetes10
alerts10
prometheus10
counter10
prometheus-operator10
aws10
bare-metal9
ipython-magic9
ansible9
high-availability9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
samuelmanzer/dotfiles
Feb 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
samuelmanzer/wavepackets
Jul 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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