Sana Divya Iyer

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Senior Engineering Manager at Ooredoo · Application security

Ooredoo
Dubai, UAE · GST (UTC+4)
9+ years experience
Technion
English, Arabic
Open to work
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Overview

Currently at Ooredoo, where I lead application security with a team of 7. Moved 85% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: Oracle and Boston Consulting Group. Kannada theatre fan.

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Skills
threat modelingcloud securityIAMBurp SuiteOWASPAppSecSAST
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Open to Security Engineer roles at pre-seed edtech companies

Target roles
Security Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
E-commerce, AI infrastructure
Work mode
Hybrid
Available
90 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the UAE
What I'm looking for
Hands-on work on Burp Suite with room to mentor.
Not interested in
Agencies and outsourcing firms

9 years in application security. Strongest at Burp Suite and OWASP. Available immediately.

Dubai, UAEcloud securityburp suitethreat modeling
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Apr 2024 - Present
    Ooredoo · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 372ms to 174ms.
    • Shipped 13 launches on the product security team without a rollback.
    • Wrote the threat modeling service that now handles 89 million requests a day.
  2. Senior Security Engineer
    Feb 2022 - Apr 2024
    Oracle · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Built the experimentation framework 33 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  3. Senior Security Engineer
    Oct 2019 - Feb 2022
    Boston Consulting Group · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Led the migration of 70 services to IAM.
    • Wrote the Burp Suite service that now handles 60 million requests a day.
  4. Security Engineer
    Jan 2018 - Oct 2019
    Qatar Airways · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Brought on-call pages for product security down from 31 a week to 4.
    • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 38% in two quarters.

Projects

Open-source IAM toolkit
2025

A small library for application security that 268 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Technion
    BSc, Computer Science
    2013 - 2017

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