Zill Christian

Senior Software Engineer

Netflix•  October 2018 - Present

Working on the Application and Protocol Security team to improve the security of content and user information from the Netflix customers’ devices to Netflix’s front door. Previously worked on the Streaming Security Engineering team to review, certify, and enhance the security functionalities operating on Netflix client devices.

Lead Security Engineer

Lifion•  February 2018 - September 2018

Lead the security engineering team at Lifion to analyze, review, and develop secure applications that contribute to platform security. Architecting secure designs and recommending security measures with best practices to support a robust cloud platform. Designed and implemented a solution to handle secrets management within a micro service architecture that handles multi-tenancy. Daily responsibilities include software engineering, threat modeling, penetration testing, patching, vetting public and commercial applications for use, security code reviewing, and driving awareness & education around secure coding practices.

Senior Software Engineer

Lifion•  May 2016 - February 2018

Worked on the authorization and identity management teams to implement a secure gateway to the main platform. Exercised application security at all levels to enforce secure registrations, logins, and session resolutions. Enhanced security infrastructure relating to authentication by architecting mobile authentication, third party authentication, biometric authentication, and single sign on. Utilized various cloud design patterns to engineer the application with efficiency and performance.

Full stack engineer

Jump Ramp Games•  June 2015 - May 2016

Worked on the backend team to optimize & scale the LAMP, nodejs, and python platform in order to increase performance while leveraging hardware constraints. Implemented application security and feature set.

Software Engineer

Axomic•  March 2014 - June 2015

Provided quality assurance solutions & development of integration tools, used to maximize the internal development and testing process. Engineering on a stack involving Linux, Apache, Mysql, and Perl.

Software Engineer

NJ Autism Center of Excellence - Coordinating Center•  May 2013 - September 2013

Web application developer for creating the backend structure for autism research to be used by the state of New Jersey to support and advance the mission of newly funded New Jersey Autism Center of Excellence (NJ ACE) clinical research sites.