Summary
Vy Phan is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building security-first, high-performance systems, currently contributing at Roblox after five years shaping access-control and insider-threat defenses at Google. Trained at UC Berkeley (MS/BS in Computer Science/EECS), Vy blends rigorous academic research with practical engineering, from hardware-attestation engines at Qualcomm to time-of-flight sensing and materials-science prototyping. Their core strengths lie at the intersection of computer security and performance programming, with hands-on experience in pentesting, red-team exercises, large-scale cryptographic key management, and audit engine design. Based in Sunnyvale, Vy is also engaged with the legal and policy side of technology, pursuing knowledge in intellectual property and IT/internet legislation—an uncommon complement to deep technical expertise. Colleagues describe them as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to translate complex security requirements into auditable, scalable systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Master of Science - MS EECS, Master of Science - MS EECS at UC Berkeley College of Engineering
English, Vietnamese, Chinese, French