Zora Williams

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Senior Engineering Manager at Upland Networks | ex-Procter & Gamble

Upland Networks
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
14+ years experience
Ohio State University
English
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Overview

Currently at Upland Networks, where I lead application security with a team of 30. Wrote the threat modeling service that now handles 24 million requests a day. Board games, hiking, and terrible puns.

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Skills
AppSecthreat modelingOWASPIAMBurp Suite
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6 mobile engineer roles open on the product security team in New York

Role
Mobile engineer
Level
Mid
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$167k-$221k + equity
Team
Product security, 15 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with threat modeling Production experience with OWASP Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $177k-$226k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

New York, NY · remote OKthreat modelingowaspappsec
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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Nov 2023 - Present
    Upland Networks · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Built the experimentation framework 19 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Grew the product security team from 4 to 24 engineers.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 35 minutes to under 5.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Nov 2020 - Nov 2023
    Procter & Gamble · 3 yr · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 28 minutes to under 6.
    • Brought on-call pages for product security down from 38 a week to 1.
  3. Senior Security Engineer
    Mar 2017 - Nov 2020
    Workday · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Brought on-call pages for product security down from 33 a week to 1.
  4. Security Engineer
    Jun 2014 - Mar 2017
    eBay · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 29 minutes to under 2.
  5. Security Engineer
    Oct 2012 - Jun 2014
    Boston Consulting Group · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 20% in two quarters.
    • Wrote the OWASP service that now handles 86 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. Ohio State University
    BA, Electronics and Communication
    2007 - 2011

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