The Protect engineering sub-department is responsible for the Protect Stage of the product.
Protect our users' applications, services, and infrastructure from the ever-evolving threat landscape.
| Person | Role |
|---|---|
| Phil Calder | Senior Engineering Manager, Anti-Abuse, Growth, Protect and Secure |
| Neil McCorrison | Frontend Engineering Manager, Secure:Threat Insights, Protect:Container Security |
| Thiago Figueiró | Backend Engineering Manager, Secure:Threat Insights, Protect:Container Security |
| Person | Role |
|---|---|
| Neil McCorrison | Frontend Engineering Manager, Secure:Threat Insights, Protect:Container Security |
| Alexander Turinske | Senior Frontend Engineer, Protect:Container Security |
The following members of other functional teams are our stable counterparts:
| Person | Role |
|---|---|
| Samuel White | Principal Product Manager, Protect |
| Andy Volpe | Staff Product Designer, Secure:Composition Analysis, Configure, Monitor, Secure, Protect |
| Nikhil George | Senior Security Engineer, Application Security, Secure (Static Analysis, Dynamic Analysis, Composition Analysis, Fuzz Testing, Threat Insights, Vulnerability Research), Protect (Container Security) |
| Justin Mandell | Product Design Manager, Configure, Monitor, Secure & Protect |
The Protect uses and contributes to a number of open source projects including:
Because we have a wide range of domains to cover, it requires a lot of different expertise and skills:
| Technology skills | Areas of interest |
|---|---|
| Ruby on Rails | Backend development |
| Go | Backend development |
| Vue, Vuex | Frontend development |
| GraphQL | Various |
| SQL (PostgreSQL) | Various |
| Docker/Kubernetes | Threat Detection |
We are constantly iterating on our planning process as a team. To maximize our velocity and meet our deliverables, we follow a refinement process for all issues.
(Sisense↗) We also track our backlog of issues, including past due security and infradev issues, and total open SUS-impacting issues and bugs.
(Sisense↗) MR Type labels help us report what we're working on to industry analysts in a way that's consistent across the engineering department. The dashboard below shows the trend of MR Types over time and a list of merged MRs.
