Sepehr Laal
Senior Vice President Of Cloud Security Engineering at VirtuLabs
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolSepehr Laal is a cloud security engineering leader and AWS-certified developer with over a decade of hands-on experience building secure, scalable systems from low-level C++ to cloud-native automation. Currently Senior Vice President of Cloud Security Engineering at Citi and a long-time freelance AR/VR/XR consultant, he blends enterprise security leadership with practical developer instincts shaped by roles at Stelligent and Amazon’s Elemental Technologies. An active open-source contributor, he has improved tooling like former2 for translating live AWS resources into IaC and helped advance the Wing language compiler and runtime, reflecting deep interests in DevOps, compilers, and WASM. Based in Portland, Oregon, he pairs formal DSP training (MS/BS) with a pragmatic engineering style—loves C++ and prefers to avoid Java—bringing both performance-minded implementation skills and a strong focus on code robustness.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, digital signal processing, Bachelor of Science, digital signal processing at Portland State UniversityAssociate of Science (AS), General Engineering, Associate of Science (AS), General Engineering at Portland Community College
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
compiler-design10
aws10
nodejs10
rust10
cloud-computing9
debug9
debugging9
terraform9
aws-cloudformation9
language-design9
terraformer9
optimization9
blazor-webassembly9
webassembly9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
winglang/wing
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
A programming language for the cloud ☁️ A unified programming model, combining infrastructure and runtime code into one language ⚡
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Compiler Engineer
Back-end Developer & Compiler EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 219 commits, 2 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Sepehr primarily focused on the development and enhancement of the Wing compiler and its associated runtime environment. Their contributions include the creation of a runtime to execute compiled Wing code, the conversion of `wingc` into a library, and the setup of a basic CI system for build releases. Furthermore, the user worked on adding JSII interop for Wing by implementing a reflection API to support classes, enums, and interfaces, as well as optimizing the performance of the wingii library. The user also integrated features like CLI commands for compiling and running Wing programs, and addressing build issues within the compiler.
serverlesssdkcloudcompilerprogramming-language
iann0036/former2
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sepehr primarily focused on improving the functionality and robustness of the `former2` tool. Their contributions included fixing unhandled promise rejections, adding an option to sort resources for easier comparison, and optimizing the main function's execution to avoid unnecessary sleeping. They also made changes to the debug output and addressed an issue related to TLS listeners, demonstrating a focus on code stability and performance. The commits also show refactoring efforts.
aws-resourcescdktftropospherepulumiiac
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