Katharina Peters

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Senior Engineering Manager at L'Oréal · Application security

L'Oréal
Zurich, Switzerland · CET (UTC+1)
13+ years experience
University of Amsterdam
English, German, French
Advising
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Overview

I lead application security at L'Oréal in Zurich. Shipped 10 launches on the product security team without a rollback.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on application security
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on cloud security decisions
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  • Courses and coaching offers
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Generic networking requests

Best reached early in the week

Skills
cloud securityOWASPPyTorchthreat modeling
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for new engineering managers: application security and PyTorch

Topics
application security, cloud security, OWASP
Format
Calls
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
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First-time founders

18 years of application security. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

Zurich, Switzerlandcloud securityowasppytorch
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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jan 2025 - Present
    L'Oréal · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Zurich, Switzerland
    • Wrote the OWASP service that now handles 54 million requests a day.
    • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 34% in two quarters.
  2. Staff Security Engineer
    May 2022 - Jan 2025
    Mollie · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Zurich, Switzerland
    • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 622ms to 60ms.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2019 - May 2022
    Volkswagen Group · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Zurich, Switzerland
    • Moved 87% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Senior Security Engineer
    Apr 2016 - Mar 2019
    LVMH · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Zurich, Switzerland
    • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
  5. Senior Security Engineer
    Aug 2013 - Apr 2016
    Airbus · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Zurich, Switzerland
    • Led the migration of 45 services to threat modeling.

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Education

  1. University of Amsterdam
    BSc, Computer Engineering
    2004 - 2007

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