Tao Zihan Low

Overview

Currently at Tencent, where I work on application security. Moved 64% of product security traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: Alibaba Group and Standard Chartered. Most at home with AppSec and OWASP. I write short fiction no one reads.

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Sep 2022 - Present
   Tencent · 4 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Singapore
   • Backed 54 founders at pre-seed and seed.
   • Sit on 2 boards.
   • Led or co-led 29 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
2. Security Engineer

   Apr 2019 - Sep 2022
   Alibaba Group · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Singapore
   • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 19% in two quarters.
3. Security Engineer

   May 2017 - Dec 2018
   Standard Chartered · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Singapore
   • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 23% in two quarters.
4. Senior Security Engineer

   Aug 2013 - May 2017
   PropertyGuru · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Singapore
   • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 349ms to 51ms.
5. Security Engineer

   Apr 2010 - Aug 2013
   Google · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Singapore
   • Cut p99 latency on the product security services from 344ms to 94ms.

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Education

1. INSEAD Singapore

   MBA, Business Administration
   2007 - 2009
2. Vietnam National University

   BSc, Computer Science
   2000 - 2004