Neil Nikhil Iyer

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Staff Security Engineer at Chewy · Application security · SAST, AppSec

Chewy
Salt Lake City, UT · MT (UTC-7)
7+ years experience
Penn State
English
Co-founder
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Overview

7 years in software engineering, the last 2 at Chewy, where I work on the product security team. Led the migration of 30 services to cloud security. Shipped 28 launches on the product security team without a rollback. Before that: Shopify and Ford. Learning to draw.

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  • People who want to build this with me
  • Questions about application security
  • Second opinions on Burp Suite decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
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Skills
SASTAppSecBurp Suitecloud securitythreat modelingOWASPIAM
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 5 months

Looking for a go-to-market co-founder for tutoring for kirana stores

The idea
Tutoring for kirana stores
Stage
Prototype
I bring
7 years in application security
Looking for
Commercial co-founder who has sold to enterprises
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Salt Lake City or remote

I bring 7 years of application security (currently Chewy). Ideally you've sold to enterprises. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

Salt Lake City, UTowaspappseccloud security
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Experience

  1. Staff Security Engineer
    Dec 2024 - Present
    Chewy · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
    • Moved 73% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 28% in two quarters.
  2. Security Engineer
    Jan 2022 - Dec 2024
    Shopify · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 23 minutes to under 6.
  3. Security Engineer
    Nov 2019 - Jan 2022
    Ford · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 30 minutes to under 4.
    • Wrote the cloud security service that now handles 23 million requests a day.

Projects

Open-source threat modeling toolkit
2026

A small library for application security that 323 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Penn State
    BS, Computer Science
    2015 - 2019

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