Lucas O'rourke
Senior Security Engineer at NYU Tandon School of Engineering
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas O'rourke is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, secure systems at Amazon, currently focusing on UnifiedAuth to standardize OAuth2/OIDC across the ecosystem. He has progressed through multiple SDE roles at Amazon—shipping APIs and AWS-based integrations that improved resiliency and reduced token latency—and brings hands-on experience integrating third-party fulfillment partners. Based in New York, he couples production engineering with teaching as an adjunct professor at NYU Tandon, where he also served as a graduate TA for algorithms and network security. His background blends practical systems development (C++, Python, REST/APIs) with applied research from an NYU MS in Computer Science. Colleagues describe him as a team-oriented engineer who favors measurable reliability and security improvements over speculative fixes. He often bridges product and infrastructure needs, turning complex auth and integration requirements into operational services.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at NYU Tandon School of Engineering
English
Github Skills (2)
django5
python4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ldorourke/CS-UY-1122
Feb 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
ldorourke/CS9163-AppSec
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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