Samuel Tan
Technical Lead Manager at Roblox
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Tan is a Technical Lead Manager based in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building secure-by-design software and leading vulnerability management at scale. He currently heads Threat and Vulnerability Management at Roblox after designing an internal platform and AI guardrails to defend against prompt injection and consolidate security findings. Prior roles at Airbnb and Google focused on supply-chain security, automated dependency remediation, and authoring safe-by-design Go libraries (safehtml) and compile-time static analysis tooling that shifted large codebases toward safer defaults. Samuel combines hands-on engineering with security leadership, shipping developer-friendly libraries and CI integrations that prevent entire classes of vulnerabilities. Notably, his work replaced standard patterns across Google and influenced CI-driven security practices at consumer-facing companies. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Dartmouth and brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to turning complex security requirements into auditable, automated solutions.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at Dartmouth College
English, Chinese
Github Skills (28)
programming-language10
interpreter10
starlark10
go10
bazel-rules10
bazel10
golang10
cgo10
goplus9
compiler9
odin9
rails6
resharper5
gradle-plugin5
compile5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stjj89/iop
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:16 commits in 7 days
stjj89/rules_go
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Go rules for Bazel
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
golangbazelstarlarkgorules
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