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Ben Zhao

Senior Software Engineer


I build secure, scalable software. I will be joining Defakto Security as a Senior Software Engineer focused on Non-Human Identity (NHI): discovering and governing upstream service accounts, machine credentials, and agentic identities. Previously at Coinbase, I designed and maintained the employee identity platform, and at Okta, my team developed the directory managing millions of users and groups.

Professional Experience


Technologies


Java

python

C/C++

Go

AWS

Docker

Technically proficient in an array of programming languages and frameworks including: Java, Spring, Scala, Python, C and C++, Go, Docker, and AWS. If I don't know it, I can learn it!

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University of Waterloo

Bachelor of Computer Science (co-op)

Solid expertise in algorithms, data structures, concurrency, networking, databases, and security. Proficiency with many programming languages across different programming paradigms.

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