Sarada Symonds
Security Engineer at CircleCI
Moraga, California, United States
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Top SchoolSarada Symonds is a Security Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience in application and infrastructure security, currently securing CI/CD environments at CircleCI after earlier roles at the Broad Institute and PwC’s OneCyber. She blends a dual Computer Engineering and Computer Science background from Northeastern (with study at Trinity College Dublin) with practical skills in vulnerability management, web app audits, digital forensics, and cloud security. At PwC she helped design a vulnerability management program that increased detection of critical issues by 40%, and she has experience using tools like Burp Suite and Nexpose plus scripting to automate processes. Comfortable across development and security, her path includes front-end and back-end prototyping, database migrations, and research into parallel computing, giving her a rare mix of offensive security know-how and software engineering depth. Active in mentoring and community groups, she also brings a track record of translating technical findings into clear, compliance-focused recommendations for diverse stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Trinity College DublinBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Northeastern University
French, English
Github Skills (83)
circleci10
security10
security-scanner10
zap10
api-blueprint10
api-documentation10
jekyll10
owasp9
cli9
command-line-tool9
zaproxy9
continuous-integration9
redoc9
documentation9
developer-tools8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ssyms/ssyms.github.io
Oct 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:12 PRs, 81 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 10 months
contact-informationreactnextjs
ssyms/simple-web-proxy
Nov 2017 - May 2020
Simple web proxy using Flask-Socketio to allow users to monitor and block urls
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
urlsmonitorpythonproxysocketio
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