Thea Heinen
Systems Engineer at Cloudflare
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThea Heinen is a systems engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience focused on low-level computing, security, and performance, currently contributing to Cloudflare's infrastructure. She has deep vulnerability research experience from Nightwing’s CODEX team and a strong competitive security background leading Texas A&M’s CTF team to top national placements. Her work spans teaching core CS courses, developing CTF infrastructure, and applied systems internships at Arista and Trintech, reflecting both practical production skills and mentoring ability. Known for pairing offensive research with system design, she brings a pragmatic, security-first mindset to building resilient, high-performance systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (149)
minecraft10
epub10
nix10
simulator10
forge10
serverless10
mobi10
linux10
debugging10
probot10
java10
exploit10
calibre10
simulation10
discord10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
tcheinen/discord-typed-interactions
Jul 2021 - Sep 2021
suppose you're working with discord slash commands and you want statically typed request types
Contributions:10 reviews, 104 commits, 29 PRs in 1 month
discordslash-commands
tsheinen/tsheinen.github.io
Feb 2019 - Aug 2024
my personal website; mostly ctf writeups
Contributions:2 PRs, 229 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 7 months
ctf
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