Tod Kaiser is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with over 12 years blending application security and full‑stack engineering across startups and large tech firms. He’s built and modernized complex Rails and React codebases, led migrations (including Ember→React), and implemented CI/CD and security automation that reduced risk and streamlined developer workflows. At Instacart he bridged product and security teams—triaging bug bounty findings, patching vulnerabilities, and introducing threat modeling and PII protections—skills he carried into senior roles at Mandiant and now Google. Tod mentors engineers, designs developer-facing tooling (Jira/GitHub GraphQL integrations, dashboards), and is comfortable shipping both UX and backend changes. A UCSB-educated generalist who started as the first full‑time security hire at Bugcrowd, he brings a rare combination of hands‑on remediation experience and product-focused engineering judgment.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at University of California, Berkeley
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