Isaac Watkins

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Senior Security Engineer, Booking Holdings - Burp Suite · AppSec · threat modeling

Booking Holdings
Dallas, TX · CT (UTC-6)
9+ years experience
UC Berkeley
English, Arabic
Co-founder
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Overview

I've spent 9 years on application security - first at Oracle, now at Booking Holdings. Led the migration of 39 services to IAM. Before that: Chewy and Starbucks. Most at home with Burp Suite and IAM.

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  • People who want to build this with me
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  • Questions about application security
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Skills
cloud securityAppSecBurp Suitethreat modelingOWASPIAM
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
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Looking for a commercial co-founder for freight matching for kirana stores

The idea
Freight matching for kirana stores
Stage
Idea
I bring
12 years in application security
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Dallas or remote

I bring 9 years of application security (currently Booking Holdings). Ideally you've run operations in the US. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

Dallas, TXappseciamowasp
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Experience

  1. Senior Security Engineer
    Dec 2024 - Present
    Booking Holdings · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Shipped 24 launches on the product security team without a rollback.
    • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 444ms to 137ms.
  2. Security Engineer
    May 2023 - Dec 2024
    Chewy · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 39 minutes to under 5.
  3. Security Engineer
    May 2019 - Mar 2023
    Starbucks · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Brought on-call pages for product security down from 33 a week to 3.
    • Moved 72% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Security Engineer
    Dec 2017 - May 2019
    Oracle · 1 yr 5 mo · Contract · Dallas, TX
    • Wrote the AppSec service that now handles 27 million requests a day.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from product security
2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling application security.

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Education

  1. UC Berkeley
    BA, Electrical Engineering
    2012 - 2016

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