Suha Can

Chief Information Security Officer at Grammarly

Suha Can has extensive experience in the field of information security. Suha currently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer at Grammarly since September 2022. Suha is also a member of the CISO Advisory Board at Unusual Ventures since December 2022.

Prior to this, Suha worked at Amazon as the Director of Security Engineering for Amazon Payments from March 2021 to September 2022. In this role, they managed a global engineering organization responsible for building and operating the core payments infrastructure and services at Amazon.

Before joining Amazon, Suha held various positions at Microsoft. Suha worked as a Principal Security Engineering Manager from September 2013 to December 2018, leading a product security engineering and research organization focused on vulnerability response and penetration testing.

Suha also worked at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Security Engineer from January 2013 to August 2013, where they specialized in penetration testing and vulnerability research.

Prior to their work at Amazon and Microsoft, Suha was a Senior Security Software Engineer at Microsoft Security Response Center from October 2007 to January 2013. Suha was responsible for finding vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and conducting root cause analysis.

Suha's career started at AirTies Wireless Networks, where they worked as a Research and Development Engineer from 2006 to 2007. Suha contributed to building embedded Linux based ADSL routers and focused on firewall, access control, routing, and product security.

Suha also gained valuable experience as a Research Intern at Télecom ParisTech, where they worked on distributed real-time systems and implemented a middleware called Data Distribution Service.

Before their internship, Suha worked at GSULinuX as a staff member from 2000 to 2005, and at IBM as an Enterprise IT Security Intern from July 2003 to October 2003.

Suha Can pursued a Master of Science (MS) degree in Distributed Software Engineering at Pierre and Marie Curie University. While the start year is not provided, it can be inferred that they completed this degree 2005, as the end year is mentioned. Additionally, Suha Can later enrolled in the University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business from 2018 to 2020 to pursue a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree with a focus on Executive education. The field of study for their MBA degree is not specified in the given information.

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  • Chief Information Security Officer

    September, 2022 - present

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