Louise Lynch

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VP of Engineering at Spindle Labs · OWASP, threat modeling

Spindle Labs
Dublin, Ireland · GMT (UTC+0)
12+ years experience
University of Cambridge
English, Arabic
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Overview

Currently at Spindle Labs, where I lead application security with a team of 12. Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 375ms to 111ms. Led the migration of 12 services to OWASP. I host a monthly meetup on application security.

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Skills
cloud securityOWASPNode.jsAppSecSASTthreat modeling

Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    May 2024 - Present
    Spindle Labs · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
    • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 301ms to 97ms.
    • Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Brought on-call pages for product security down from 36 a week to 3.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Aug 2020 - Feb 2024
    AIB · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
    • Built the experimentation framework 12 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  3. Principal Engineer
    May 2019 - Aug 2020
    Goldman Sachs · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
    • Sit on 6 boards.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Jan 2017 - Feb 2019
    Vodafone · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
    • Grew the product security team from 3 to 20 engineers.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Oct 2014 - Jan 2017
    BAE Systems · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
    • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.

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Education

  1. University of Cambridge
    BA, Electrical Engineering
    2004 - 2007

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