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Offensive security engineer.

A decade in security across enterprise infrastructure, security strategy and risk consulting, and now offensive security engineering at a major cryptocurrency exchange with over $400B in assets under management, specializing in application security, and increasingly the AI tooling that changes how that work gets done.

Tyler Almeida

01 — Career

  • 2021 — Current

    Security engineering

    a major cryptocurrency exchange · 5.5 years

    Risk and policy first, then offensive security, breaking systems for a living.

  • 2016 — 2021

    Security & risk consulting

    a global management consulting firm · 5 years

    How security and risk are assessed, and how they fail.

  • 2013 — 2016

    Enterprise database engineering

    Oracle · 2.5 years

    How large, complex systems actually run.

02 — Credentials

03 — On the record

Named plaintiff in Van Loon v. Department of the Treasury, the Fifth Circuit case that struck down the Tornado Cash sanctions.

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04 — Contact

Say what the problem is.

I read everything that arrives. If you’re hiring for senior or staff offensive security, security engineering, or AI-security work, tell me what the problem is rather than what the role is called.