Jennifer Garrett

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Senior Security Engineer at Dropbox · Burp Suite, cloud security

Dropbox
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
8+ years experience
Wharton
English
Co-founder
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Overview

Senior Security Engineer at Dropbox, focused on application security. Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion. Moved 78% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Most at home with SAST and OWASP. Into vintage synthesizers.

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Skills
cloud securityBurp SuiteIAMSASTOWASPAppSec
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a commercial co-founder for school fee payments for landlords

The idea
School fee payments for landlords
Stage
Early revenue
I bring
5 years in application security
Looking for
Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
San Francisco or remote

I bring 8 years of application security (currently Dropbox). Ideally you've run operations in Africa. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

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Experience

  1. Senior Security Engineer
    Mar 2025 - Present
    Dropbox · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Grew the product security team from 5 to 20 engineers.
    • Led the migration of 56 services to Burp Suite.
    • Shipped 9 launches on the product security team without a rollback.
  2. Security Engineer
    Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
    General Motors · 3 yr · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Shipped 28 launches on the product security team without a rollback.
    • Moved 78% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Security Engineer
    Mar 2019 - Mar 2022
    American Express · 3 yr · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 21 minutes to under 3.

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Education

  1. Wharton
    MBA, Business Administration
    2021 - 2023
  2. NYU
    BA, Electronics and Communication
    2013 - 2017

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