Monique Thomas

Overview

Based in Chicago. I work on application security at Coinbase. Moved 83% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Grew the product security team from 4 to 37 engineers. Most at home with IAM and Burp Suite. Open-source contributor on weekends.

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Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Mar 2023 - Present
   Coinbase · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
   • Led or co-led 35 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Backed 54 founders at pre-seed and seed.
2. Senior Security Engineer

   Jan 2021 - Mar 2023
   Nvidia · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
   • Wrote the cloud security service that now handles 17 million requests a day.
3. Senior Security Engineer

   Jul 2017 - Jan 2021
   McKinsey & Company · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
   • Grew the product security team from 6 to 40 engineers.
4. Engineering Manager

   Feb 2015 - Jul 2017
   Disney · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
   • Grew the product security team from 5 to 27 engineers.
   • Wrote the OWASP service that now handles 76 million requests a day.
5. Security Engineer

   Dec 2012 - Feb 2015
   Airbnb · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chicago, IL
   • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 802ms to 158ms.

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Education

1. UC San Diego

   BS, Information Technology
   1999 - 2003