Amir Shahatit I'm a security engineer at Zip, specializing in customer IAM, internal authorization, and application security. I'm passionate about education, languages, and tacos.
Experience2022 - Now: Software Engineer (Security) @ Zip, San Francisco, CA
Restricted internal admin access with minimal friction. Automatically provisioned access for employees based on job function
Productized SSO setup and security recommendations, leading to over 95% of users signing in exclusively with SSO.
Coordinated the migration and rotation of all source code secrets into AWS SM, collaborating across every engineering team at Zip.
Created a developer security and security awareness program.
2022: Software Engineer (Security) @ Brex, Remote
Automated the process for onboarding customers to SSO with SAML and OIDC, saving roughly 5 hours of engineering time per week.
Created an interface for checking access to resources within the centralized authorization server.
Software Engineer at Voleon Capital Management, May 2020 - December 2021
Implemented support for new financial instrument classes, optimizing PNL metrics. Collaborated with researchers on analytics for asset pricing and helped transition to a new version of the pandas library.
Software Engineering Intern at Intuit, May 2017 - August 2017
Worked on system assignment processes for matching taxpayers with tax professionals, and contributed to legal consent tracking infrastructure.
Undergraduate Researcher at Netsys Lab, January 2019 - June 2019
Conducted research on edge computing and resilience, collaborating with Professor Scott Shenker. Co-authored a paper on optimal state-sharing policies.
Teaching Assistant for CS 88, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
Led labs, created course content, and held office hours, instructing over 35 students.