Silas Burns

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Senior Engineering Manager at Tesla · Application security · OWASP, Burp Suite

Tesla
Boston, MA · ET (UTC-5)
10+ years experience
USC
English, Hindi
Co-founder
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Overview

I lead application security at Tesla in Boston. Wrote the IAM service that now handles 83 million requests a day. Moved 91% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: JPMorgan Chase and Reddit. Learning Japanese, slowly.

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on cloud security decisions
  • Questions about application security
Please don't message about
  • Requests to fix your code for free
  • Crypto token projects

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Skills
IAMAppSecOWASPBurp SuiteSASTcloud security
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a design-minded co-founder for clinical documentation for Indian SMBs

The idea
Clinical documentation for Indian SMBs
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
8 years in application security
Looking for
Commercial co-founder who has sold to enterprises
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Boston or remote

I bring 10 years of application security (currently Tesla). Ideally you've led a design team. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Boston, MAburp suiteowaspappsec
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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Tesla · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 22% in two quarters.
    • Grew the product security team from 5 to 21 engineers.
    • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 449ms to 56ms.
  2. Senior Security Engineer
    Jan 2023 - Feb 2025
    JPMorgan Chase · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
  3. Senior Security Engineer
    Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
    Reddit · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 40 minutes to under 6.
    • Wrote the IAM service that now handles 66 million requests a day.
  4. Security Engineer
    Aug 2018 - Nov 2020
    Tesla · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 27 minutes to under 2.
    • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 43% in two quarters.
  5. Security Engineer
    Sep 2016 - Jul 2018
    Coinbase · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Boston, MA
    • Brought on-call pages for product security down from 26 a week to 3.
    • Wrote the IAM service that now handles 81 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. USC
    BS, Electrical Engineering
    2011 - 2015

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