Sander Demeester
Principal Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSander Demeester is a Principal Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services with 14 years of hands-on experience in application and infrastructure security. Based in Seattle, he progressed from security researcher roles at PwC and academia to senior and principal engineering positions at AWS, combining deep technical analysis with programmatic security leadership. Known simply as a "computer security geek" on GitHub, he blends curiosity-driven research with practical defensive engineering to secure large-scale cloud services. His background in computer science from Ghent University and early work on high-performance computing give him a strong foundation in systems-level thinking that informs his threat modeling and risk mitigation approaches. Sander is comfortable translating complex security problems into auditable, deployable controls across global teams.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ghent UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at University Ghent
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SanderDemeester/evil_sysread
Sep 2013 - Mar 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 8 years 6 months
SanderDemeester/Mandark
Nov 2012 - Mar 2022
Contributions:62 commits, 1 push in 9 years 5 months
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