Kathy Nguyen

Application Security at Datadog

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

About

●  A very fast and avid learner with a desire to grow and learn new skill sets. ●  Adaptive and experienced in high-pressure situations. ●  A team player who thrives in collaborative environments with the initiative and resilience to tackle problems.

Experience

  • Datadog (4 yrs 11 mos)
    • Senior Engineering Manager
      Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Engineering Manager
      Jul 2022 - Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Senior Security Engineer
      Aug 2021 - Jun 2022 · 11 mos

  • Application Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Jul 2020 - Aug 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

    ● Performed security reviews for new AWS services, reviewing service team's design and threat modelling ● Identified high risk components within a service and worked with teams to address any security issues ● Pentested new features with tools such as Burp ● Documented runbooks to help improve security review processes

  • Application Security Engineer at SurveyMonkey
    Jul 2017 - Jun 2020 · 3 yrs

    ● Automate security tests within the CI/CD pipeline ● Implement security static analysis of applications ● Employ security practices and access control within the CD infrastructure ● Design and enforce content security policies (CSP) to help prevent with XSS, clickjacking and code injection attacks ● Triage bug bounty reports while working with developers to remediate found issues ● Provide consultation on threat modelling during design of new features and guidance on best security practices ● Setup CTF events to promote security awareness ● Identified security risks within the product where they are communicated to the greater leadership group to help prioritize work and initiatives to address those issues.

  • Sightline Innovation Inc (Greater Winnipeg Metropolitan Area)
    • Senior Systems Engineer
      Apr 2016 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos

      ● DevOps team lead. Responsible for identifying and prioritizing:      » back-end development tasks      » core framework design and implementation      » cloud infrastructure      » continuous integration and development infrastructure      » application deployment operations and procedures      » server maintenance (backup, upgrade, recovery) ● Systems integration lead for client application solutions ● Involved in team management and organization using Agile development

    • Systems Engineer
      Sep 2015 - Apr 2016 · 8 mos

      ● Backend software development and architecture using meta programming techniques, working closely with other teams in assisting with application design and integration. ● Designed and deployed an infrastructure for cloud data storage: Ceph cluster on Docker Swarm with Consul service discovery and MongoDB database with replication for high availability. ● Formed storage backup procedures. ● Responsible for deployment operations and maintenance of development infrastructure (git servers, continuous integration tools, user accounts). ● Designed and automated software tests (unit testing, integration tests, and smoke tests) through Teamcity while optimizing testing infrastructure and testing standards.

  • Junior Test Engineer at iders
    May 2015 - Sep 2015 · 5 mos

    ● Developed and maintained testing software for Environmental Stress Screening of manufactured products in C/C++ using a QT Framework. ● Designed and developed test scripts for module testing and release testing ● Debugging/Troubleshooting hardware and software application