Matthew Brandman

Matthew Brandman is currently working as a Senior Engineering Manager - Security at Duolingo since August 2022. In this role, they lead the security teams to ensure the safety of learners and focuses on scalable technology and processes. Matthew'sresponsibilities include appsec, cloudsec, corpsec, user safety, and platform abuse prevention.

Prior to joining Duolingo, Matthew worked at Compass as an Application Security Lead from April 2022 to August 2022. Matthew also served as a Senior Product Security Engineer at Compass from July 2021 to April 2022.

Before their time at Compass, Matthew worked at Blackstone as an Application Security Lead from July 2019 to July 2021.

Matthew's work experience also includes a role as an Associate member at PwC's Cybersecurity Division from February 2018 to July 2019. In this role, they consulted with multinational firms to assess and improve their cybersecurity position.

Matthew has also worked as a Cyber Security and Privacy Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers from June 2016 to December 2016, and as a Cyber Security Analyst at Bain Capital from July 2015 to November 2015.

Matthew Brandman completed their Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Cyber Security at Northeastern University from 2013 to 2017. Matthew also obtained certifications in Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner and Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate from Amazon Web Services (AWS). The specific months and years of obtaining these certifications are not mentioned.