Sam Lanning
Software Engineer - Security Engineer - Speaker - Lighting Designer
Core Interests: Open Source Software, Security, SDLC & DevEx, Code Quality, Public Sector Software, Lighting & TypeScript
Currently securing the software at Wise.
Email: sam@samlanning.com
Previous endeavours
- Numerous GitHub Repositories and Open Source Contributions.
- Synesthesia Project - An open source lighting & sound project
- Reach4Help - A global volunteer-run initiative bridging the gap between people in need and volunteers who can help through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
- Queerious Labs - A queer, anarchafeminist art+tech community workshop.
Educational Content
Public speaking
- Jan 2023 - Refresh - Why Use TypeScript and How to Migrate Your Large Projects (Video)
- No More Whack-a-Mole: How to Find and Prevent Entire Classes of Security Vulnerabilities:
- Jul 2019 - OSCON - Writing npm (JavaScript) libraries using TypeScript (Video)
- Jul 2019 - OSCON - How TypeScript is transforming the JavaScript ecosystem (Video)
- Oct 2018 - Oracle Code One - How to Avoid 0-Days Due to Unsafe Deserialization [DEV5219] (Joint talk with Oege de Moor & Bas van Schaik)
- Oct 2018 - GitHub Universe Demo Desk - Finding and preventing bugs with LGTM (Video)
- Jan 2017 - Noisebridge 5MOF - Lights & Music (Video)
Career
- Dec 2023 - current - Staff Software Security Engineer @ Wise
- Feb 2022 - Dec 2023 - Senior Software Security Engineer @ Wise
- May 2020 - Dec 2021 - Independent Contractor (Senior Developer) for United Nations OCHA
- Nov 2019 - May 2018 - Senior Developer Advocate @ GitHub
- Mar 2018 - Nov 2019 - Developer Advocate @ Semmle
- Feb 2018 - Mar 2018 - Senior Software Engineer @ Semmle
- Oct 2014 - Feb 2018 - Software Engineer @ Semmle
- Nov 2014 - Jul 2015 - Computer Science Specialist Tutor @ LVS Oxford - a school for young people / children on the autistic spectrum
- Feb 2012 - Feb 2014 - Spent 1 year as Secretary, and 1 year as President of the Oxford University Computer Society
- 2011 - 2014 - Computer Science Bachelor's Degree, University of Oxford.
- More details on my LinkedIn profile.