Shanief Webb
Member Of Technical Advisory Board at Headspace
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShanief Webb is an interim Chief Information Security Officer and seasoned security leader with nine years of hands-on experience and twelve years of deep technical engineering rooted in incident response, threat hunting, and malware analysis. He combines a Carnegie Mellon master’s in Information Security Policy & Management with practical expertise across AppSec, penetration testing, detection & response, and cloud operations, having led security at Headspace and held senior roles at Meta, Okta, Dropbox, Slack, Google, and the FBI. Known for technical empathy, he stays close to the work his teams do—mentoring engineers and translating complex technical risk into strategic, operational decisions. He also tinkers with embedded hardware (Arduino/ESP boards) and low-level C/C++, reflecting a persistent curiosity that informs both offensive and defensive perspectives.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Florida State UniversityMaster of Science Information Security Policy & Management, Master of Science Information Security Policy & Management at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (32)
grails9
groovy9
web-application8
application-framework7
pact-broker6
documentation6
security6
pact5
broker5
docker4
docker-compose4
esp323
arduino3
station3
databases2
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
seaniefs/ArduinoBearSSL
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Port of BearSSL to Arduino
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
bearsslavrarduino-unoarduinoarduino-ide
seaniefs/WT32-SC01-Exp
Dec 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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