Christopher Brawn

About Christopher Brawn

A serial entrepreneur and technologist with 25+ years of experience planning, building, and operating global mission-critical applications.As an experienced operational manager, I my early career focused on growing early-stage technology companies, with engineering successes ranging from broadcast hardware to cryptographic primitives, threat analysis, and reverse engineering, to high volume, low latency financial transaction processing.In the last decade, I worked with (and led) some of the best teams in the Bay Area. At eBay, we built out the next generation of eBay\'s Global Platform Framework around polyglot stack support (Scala, Python, Node.js, and Go). At Paypal, I led our nextgen cloud services work on software load balancing (which was open-sourced as Neutrino). At Apple Maps, I delivered products and infrastructure combining real-time global data to support vehicle navigation and ETAs. In Apple Pay, we built out cloud infrastructure across our data centers, and I founded and led the software load-balancing initiative (becoming the the Traffic team).Now, in Google Cloud, I\'m part of an incredible team protecting Google and our customers from DDoS, volumetric, and WAF attacks.I hold a Honours Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo. I am also a local and international disaster management delegate with the Canadian Red Cross.

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer Tlm - Google Cloud Armor

   Google

   Apr 2022 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US

   Google Cloud Armor and DDoS team help protect Google\'s production infrastructure and your Google Cloud deployments from multiple types of threats, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and application attacks like cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection (SQLi).Highlights- Per-client rate limiting / throttling- Machine learning-based Adaptive Protection- Network-based threat intelligence- Bot management with reCAPTCHA Enterprise- WAF protection featuring preconfigured OWASP and custom rulesOur Project Shield is a free service that defends news, human rights, and elections-related sites from DDoS attacks. See https://projectshield.withgoogle.com for more information.Our team in the news- https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/google-cloud-mitigated-largest-ddos-attack-peaking-above-398-million-rps- https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/how-google-cloud-blocked-largest-layer-7-ddos-attack-at-46-million-rps-

Education

• Brandon University

  Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics

  1995 — 1996

• University of Waterloo

  Hons. BMath, Computer Science, Combinatorics and Optimization

  1996 — 2001

• I.B. Concepción Arenal

  COU (Curso de Orientación Universitaria), Sciences

  1994 — 1995

Skills

• Mysql
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Logistics Management
• Policy Analysis
• Gis
• Rest
• J2ee
• Sql
• Payment Solutions
• Ibatis
• Hibernate
• Python
• Scrum
• Fraud Analysis
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Encryption
• Payment Systems
• Seismic
• Reverse Engineering
• Oracle Sql
• Payment Gateways
• Gwt
• Java
• Internet Security
• Crisis Management
• Guice
• Agile Project Management
• C++
• Emergency Operations
• Security
• System Architecture
• Software Engineering
• Php
• International Logistics
• Penetration Testing
• Perl
• Embedded Systems
• Crisis Intervention
• Solution Architecture
• Sql Server