Justin Picar

Justin Picar is a seasoned security engineer currently employed at Pinterest since March 2020, while also serving as a mentor at AYM College since January 2020. Picar has previously held positions as a software developer at RackWare Inc., where notable achievements included migrating over 500 machines to cloud servers and optimizing data gathering processes. Experience as a software engineer at Starbutter AI involved architecting chatbots for major platforms and developing a PCI-compliant financial analysis website. Early career roles included an Android application intern at the Institute of Transportation Studies Berkeley, contributing to user interface design and database maintenance as a student assistant. Justin Picar holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, earned in 2018.