Hana Watson
Security Engineer at TravelPerk
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHana Watson is a Security Engineer based in London with five years' experience strengthening application and platform security at high-growth tech companies. After an early application security stint at Thought Machine, she returned there as a Security Engineer before joining TravelPerk to focus on securing distributed systems and developer workflows. A first-class BEng graduate in Joint Mathematics and Computing from Imperial College London, she combines formal analytical training with hands-on threat modeling and code-level review. Her background includes teaching assistant work, indicating clear technical communication skills and a knack for mentoring engineers on secure-by-design practices. Notably, she has experience across both fintech-grade and travel-scale environments, giving her perspective on balancing rigorous controls with rapid product delivery. Practical, methodical, and curious, she brings a math-infused approach to pragmatic security engineering.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Joint Mathematics and Computing Mathematics and Computer Science, BEng Joint Mathematics and Computing Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College LondonSt Catherine's School, Bramley
English, british sign language, Spanish, German
Github Skills (17)
automated-build9
security-vulnerability9
database8
driver8
security8
graphic8
opengl7
shader7
falco7
kernel6
rust6
metal6
gpu6
vulkan6
ebpf5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hanawatson/wgslrunner
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 16 pushes in 4 months
hanawatson/wgslgenerator
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:15 pushes in 1 month
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