Summary
Adam Tanana is a Senior Security Engineer based in Greater Sydney with eight years of hands-on experience securing large-scale systems at Google. He has progressed through multiple engineering levels at Google since 2019, blending applied offensive techniques with pragmatic defenses. Alongside industry work, Adam lectures reverse engineering, secure code review, and exploitation at UNSW and SECedu, demonstrating a strong commitment to training the next generation of security practitioners. His background includes practical network and firewall operations from an Optus placement and a software engineering internship at Jane Street, giving him both systems and application-level perspective. Known for translating complex vulnerabilities into teachable insights, he focuses on building auditable, resilient controls rather than theoretical models. Passionate about applied security education, he brings academic rigor to production-grade threat mitigation.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney