Sam Havron
Privacy Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSam Havron is a privacy engineer at Meta with a decade of experience building privacy-preserving infrastructure and security tooling across large-scale products. He blends hands-on engineering with research to advance privacy, safety, and democratization of security for underserved communities, including helping establish the first computer security and privacy clinic for survivors of intimate partner violence during his Cornell Tech work. His work has been published at IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, and PETs, with coverage in the NYTimes, WIRED, and MIT Technology Review, and informs his practice at Meta in privacy tooling and incident management. Previously, he contributed to Squarespace's security program and worked on the Lemur Certificate Manager backend, focusing on input validation and plugin security. He holds a BS in Computer Science from UVA and an MS in CS from Cornell, with a career spanning academia, startups, and a leading tech company. Based in New York, he translates rigorous research into scalable, privacy-conscious engineering solutions.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Virginia
English
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Github Skills (11)
aws10
validation10
python10
validations10
security10
flask-ask9
flask9
ssl9
api-design8
django4
django24
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/lemur
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Repository for the Lemur Certificate Manager
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 47 commits, 10 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on validating plugin options server-side within the Lemur Certificate Manager. Their contributions involved modifying code in `lemur/destinations/views.py` and `lemur/sources/views.py` to include input validation rules, and updating `lemur/schemas.py` to handle sub-plugins. They also worked on the `lemur/plugins` to improve the validation of the plugin options. This work focused on ensuring proper data handling and security within the Lemur platform.
pythonsslssl-certificatessecuritytls
havron/web
Apr 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:151 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
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