Winston Howes
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Beverly Hills, California, United States
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Top SchoolWinston Howes is a security-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building web-first defenses and enabling product teams at scale. He progressed from hands-on engineering roles at Signal Sciences and Snap—where he moved from Information Security Engineer to Manager of Application Security—to a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, combining technical leadership with operational execution. Winston designs and implements practical security solutions, emphasizing strong cross-team partnerships and engineering discipline rather than just policy. He has entrepreneurial roots (founding an anti-phishing startup) and early cloud and automation experience from IBM Extreme Blue, giving him a rare blend of product, research, and infrastructure perspectives. Based in Beverly Hills, he brings a pragmatic approach to reducing risk across complex web platforms while mentoring teams to bake security into the development lifecycle.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at National University of SingaporeBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (57)
polymer-element10
jquery10
parallax10
jquery-ui10
javascript9
ajax9
searchable9
polymer9
go-application9
html9
openbci8
web-components7
react7
sortable6
conditional-statements6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
winhowes/grd.me
Dec 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:1 release, 309 commits, 266 pushes in 9 months
winhowes/file-list
Jun 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:52 commits, 3 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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