Catalina Adriana Rivera

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VP of Engineering, Lighthouse Pay - SAST · IAM · OWASP

Lighthouse Pay
Raleigh, NC · ET (UTC-5)
15+ years experience
Parsons School of Design
English
Hiring
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Overview

Based in Raleigh. I lead application security at Lighthouse Pay. Shipped 11 launches on the product security team without a rollback. Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion. Most at home with threat modeling and SAST. Former debater; now I argue with spreadsheets.

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Skills
SASTthreat modelingIAMOWASPBurp Suite
HiringHiring for a role
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2 backend engineer roles open on the product security team in Raleigh

Role
Backend engineer
Level
Mid
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$133k-$175k + equity
Team
Product security, 17 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with IAM Production experience with Burp Suite Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp $180k-$303k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Raleigh, NCthreat modelingowaspsast
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Jun 2024 - Present
    Lighthouse Pay · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Brought on-call pages for product security down from 38 a week to 3.
    • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 587ms to 132ms.
  2. Security Engineer
    Jul 2020 - May 2024
    Salesforce · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 44% in two quarters.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Jan 2017 - Jul 2020
    Adobe · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 20 minutes to under 3.
  4. Security Engineer
    Jun 2015 - Jan 2017
    HubSpot · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Moved 86% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Staff Security Engineer
    Oct 2011 - Jun 2015
    ServiceNow · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Grew the product security team from 6 to 34 engineers.
    • Built the experimentation framework 27 product teams use to ship changes safely.

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Education

  1. Parsons School of Design
    BFA, Mathematics
    2000 - 2004

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