Xavier Stevens

Staff Security Researcher at Fastly

Xavier Stevens has a strong background in the technology industry, with experience at various companies in different roles. Xavier is currently working at Fastly as a Staff Security Researcher, starting in April 2022. Prior to this, they were a Senior Security Researcher at Fastly from January 2021 to April 2022.

Before joining Fastly, Xavier worked at VMware as a Staff Engineer from July 2019 to January 2021. Xavier also held the position of Senior Member Of Technical Staff at VMware from December 2018 to July 2019.

In 2018, Xavier worked at Heptio as a Senior Systems Engineer from July to December.

From 2014 to 2018, Xavier worked at Simple Finance, where they first started as a Data Engineer from July 2014 to July 2017 and then transitioned to the role of Application Security Engineer from July 2017 to July 2018.

Prior to Simple Finance, Xavier worked at Gaikai, a Sony Computer Entertainment company, as a Senior Java Engineer from March 2013 to July 2014.

Xavier also has experience at Mozilla Corporation, where they served as a Senior Metrics Engineer from May 2010 to February 2013. Before that, they worked at Fox Audience Network as a Senior Software Engineer from May 2007 to May 2010.

Xavier's career started at Fox Interactive Media, where they worked as a Senior Software Engineer from November 2005 to May 2007, and earlier as a Software Engineer from November 2004 to November 2005.

Xavier began their professional journey at SISCOM Media as a Software Engineer from June 2002 to June 2004. Prior to that, they worked at FilterLogix as a Software Engineer from May 2001 to June 2002.

Xavier Stevens attended The University of Kansas from 1997 to 2002, where they obtained a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Computer Science. Additionally, in February 2018, they obtained the GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT) certification from the Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) institution.

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Timeline

  • Staff Security Researcher

    April, 2022 - present

  • Senior Security Researcher

    January, 2021