Naomi Harper

Overview

Director of Engineering at Target, focused on application security. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 30 minutes to under 2. Before that: Dropbox and General Motors. Most at home with Burp Suite and AppSec. Travel slowly, usually by train.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Oct 2025 - Present
   Target · 1 yr · Full-time · Denver, CO
   • Shipped 10 launches on the product security team without a rollback.
   • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 484ms to 42ms.
   • Wrote the AppSec service that now handles 42 million requests a day.
2. Staff Security Engineer

   Jan 2024 - Aug 2025
   Dropbox · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
   • Moved 87% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Senior Security Engineer

   Jun 2022 - Nov 2023
   General Motors · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
   • Moved 66% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Engineering Manager

   Jun 2019 - Jun 2022
   BlackRock · 3 yr · Full-time · Denver, CO
   • Wrote the IAM service that now handles 48 million requests a day.
   • Moved 80% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Security Engineer

   Mar 2017 - Jun 2019
   ServiceNow · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
   • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 788ms to 49ms.
   • Wrote the AppSec service that now handles 60 million requests a day.

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Education

1. Stanford University

   BS, Information Technology
   2006 - 2010