Sky Faber
Head Of Engineering at Grab
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSky Faber is a Head of Engineering based in Seattle with 14 years building highly reliable, privacy-forward identity and authorization systems for companies like Grab and Google. With a Ph.D. in Security & Privacy from UC Irvine and deep hands-on experience in C++, Go, Python, and cryptography, Sky has led planet-scale IAM services and architected AuthZ/N infrastructure for ride-hailing across Southeast Asia. They combine research-grade expertise in privacy-preserving protocols with pragmatic operational leadership as an honorary SRE and incident-response veteran. Known for moving between deep systems work and people-facing leadership, Sky drives cross-team design, reliability, and velocity while keeping security and data privacy central. An early career background in scalable distributed privacy research and encrypted database R&D underpins a knack for turning advanced cryptographic ideas into production-ready systems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of WashingtonUniversity of California, Irvine
English
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Github Skills (70)
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android-studio9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
diedthreetimes/VCrash
May 2012 - Jun 2012
Contributions:37 commits in 14 days
diedthreetimes/plexprep
May 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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