Elizabeth Peters

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Senior Security Engineer at IBM · Application security · Burp Suite, SAST

IBM
Miami, FL · ET (UTC-5)
8+ years experience
UC Berkeley
English, French
Co-founderOpen to work
Messaging unavailable

Overview

I work on application security at IBM in Miami. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 16 minutes to under 6. Before that: Ford and Spotify. Most at home with OWASP and cloud security. Collector of fountain pens.

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  • People who want to build this with me
  • Roles in application security
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Skills
threat modelingcloud securitySASTAppSecBurp SuiteIAMOWASP
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for invoice financing for agencies

The idea
Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for invoice financing for agencies
Stage
Early revenue
I bring
9 years in application security
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Miami or remote

I bring 9 years of application security (currently IBM). Ideally you've led a design team. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

Miami, FL · remote OKthreat modelingburp suiteappsec
Open
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Security Engineer roles in wealth management - Miami or remote

Target roles
Security Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
Developer tools, Healthtech
Work mode
Hybrid
Available
30 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the FL
What I'm looking for
Scope to lead application security work, with a manager who gives direct feedback.
Not interested in
Pure people management

9 years in application security. Strongest at threat modeling and IAM. Serving notice now.

Miami, FLcloud securityiamthreat modeling
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Experience

  1. Senior Security Engineer
    Jul 2025 - Present
    IBM · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Wrote the threat modeling service that now handles 63 million requests a day.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 40 minutes to under 2.
    • Grew the product security team from 5 to 16 engineers.
  2. Security Engineer
    Feb 2024 - Jul 2025
    Ford · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Brought on-call pages for product security down from 36 a week to 2.
  3. Security Engineer
    Feb 2022 - Nov 2023
    Spotify · 1 yr 9 mo · Contract · Miami, FL
    • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 357ms to 101ms.
    • Brought on-call pages for product security down from 32 a week to 2.
  4. Security Engineer
    Apr 2020 - Dec 2021
    Bain & Company · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 34% in two quarters.
  5. Security Engineer
    Sep 2018 - Apr 2020
    PayPal · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Shipped 30 launches on the product security team without a rollback.

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Education

  1. UC Berkeley
    BA, Electronics and Communication
    2013 - 2017

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