Samuel Carlson

Overview

VP of Engineering at Nectar Robotics, focused on application security. Reduced cloud spend on product security by 37% in two quarters. Before that: Manulife and RBC.

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Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   May 2023 - Present
   Nectar Robotics · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
   • Brought on-call pages for product security down from 33 a week to 2.
   • Built the experimentation framework 29 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Wrote the Burp Suite service that now handles 74 million requests a day.
2. Senior Engineering Manager

   May 2020 - May 2023
   Manulife · 3 yr · Full-time · Montreal, QC
   • Shipped 27 launches on the product security team without a rollback.
   • Led the migration of 53 services to threat modeling.
3. Senior Engineering Manager

   Oct 2016 - May 2020
   RBC · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
   • Grew the product security team from 6 to 26 engineers.
   • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 807ms to 47ms.
4. Security Engineer

   Sep 2013 - Oct 2016
   Manulife · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
   • Wrote the Burp Suite service that now handles 5 million requests a day.
   • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 27% in two quarters.
5. Senior Security Engineer

   Aug 2011 - Sep 2013
   Bell Canada · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
   • Grew the product security team from 5 to 33 engineers.

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Education

1. University of Alberta

   BSc, Mathematics
   2003 - 2007