About

Abraham Kang, Esq. is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Security Engineer (MTS-2) at PayPal's Venmo platform, with over 15 years of relevant experience in the tech industry. He is a visionary leader who is passionate about identifying opportunities and trends tied to company and team capabilities, and developing creative solutions for them. He has a demonstrated track record of guiding engineers in achieving these solutions in security, web, mobile, and systems, and setting a good example through hard work, continual learning, respect of others, out-of-the-box thinking, listening, and communicating. Abraham is also an inspiring leader who has a talent for finding the greatness in people and helping them bring it out. He observes, listens to, and studies people to understand what drives them and what interests they have. He gives people challenging problems and helps them when they get stuck. He helps people understand the vision of where they are going, why it is important, and how it will benefit them. He gets people to want to be the best in whatever they do because it will help them in their careers. He genuinely puts people first. Abraham is a collaborative team player who coordinates and shares ideas with other teams and groups, even if they will possibly outshine him because they will know who helped them succeed. He teaches to create an environment of skill sharing and mentors people to become good leaders and followers. He helps people develop both their technical and interpersonal skills. Abraham is also an excellent communicator who is clear, concise, and to the point. He provides security services to the Venmo platform and client codebases, reviews python, Django, React, Android, and iOS code and architectural designs to discover enumeration, privilege escalation, and other security vulnerabilities. He enhances and debugs the dangling DNS checker to support CNames and A records, and analyzes, responds, and remediates security incidents by identifying code fixes, WAF rules, and architectural modifications to Venmo platform. He has successfully submitted 3 patents to address QR code relay attacks, fake biz profile detection, and reverse proxy mitigation. Before joining PayPal, Abraham worked as CTO at geeee, where he oversaw and carried out research on machine learning attacks and defenses spanning adversarial samples and deepfakes. He also worked as Senior Director Software at Samsung, where he evaluated companies for acquisition or investment, reviewed technology, security, founders, business value proposition, vision, and potential fit with Samsung services and products,