Westin Kurlancheek

Westin Kurlancheek is a Senior Engineer in Advanced Research at CrowdStrike, where they focus on finding new methods to amplify signal and decrease noise in the alerting space. They previously held positions as a Security Engineer at Rippling and a Senior Security Engineer at Toyota Research Institute, where they led a centralized logging team and managed an AWS security team. Westin's early career included a Graduate Student Researcher role at UC Berkeley/LBNL and significant contributions as a Senior Software Developer at OSIsoft, where they were the Security Champion for their group. They earned a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Harvey Mudd College and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.