About

Greg Wittel is a Principal Software Engineer with over 18 years of experience in the field. He is passionate about learning and problem-solving, and loves tackling new challenges with each project. Greg is particularly interested in computer security, and has worked on large-scale big data analysis, adversarial classification, and machine learning. Currently working as a Software Engineer at Twinwave Security, Greg has previously held the position of Principal Software Engineer at Proofpoint, where he led the design and implementation of new edge threat detection infrastructure. He improved automated threat detection campaign block rate from 80% to 95% and optimized multi-systems resulting in a P99 API response time of 7ms. He also designed and implemented key backend components in Proofpoint's Browser Isolation product, unblocked multiple teams faced with performance and reliability issues, and identified key information security breaches and vulnerabilities. Greg has mentored junior developers and has been a departmental point of contact for evaluation of security threats. Greg has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the same university. He is proficient in Java, Perl, Python, C++, C, and has experience working with technologies like Kafka, Presto, Hive, Redis, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Hadoop, Javascript, HTML, CSS. He has a deep full-stack experience and has used his broad domain and engineering knowledge to unify threat analyst and engineering efforts. Overall, Greg is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a strong background in computer security, large-scale big data analysis, and machine learning. He is a quick learner, a problem solver, and an excellent team player.