Frank Wang
Staff Security Software Engineer at Headway
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Staff Security Software Engineer
2023 - Current
First security hire and lead security engineer. Reporting to the CISO. Securely building a mental healthcare platform that everyone can access!
Headway is a mental healthcare system that helps users have access to affordable healthcare.
Raised $325,500,000.00 from Forerunner, Global Founders Capital, Spark Capital, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital.
Staff Security Software Engineer
2022 - 2023
First security engineer hire. Reported into Senior Director of Platform Engineering and then VP of Security. - Built the security engineering team from 1 to 6 people, which owned and scaled product, application, infrastructure security, and security operations (i.e. all of security except compliance and IT security). - Led and implemented technical solutions, programs, and strategies - Scaled security programs for an organization with 180 employees (60 engineers) to 420 employees (130 engineers) and world-class revenue/ARR growth.
Dbt Labs develops an analytics engineering tool that prepares raw data in the warehouse for analysis.
Raised $414,400,000.00 from Salesforce Ventures, GIC, Amplify Partners, Tiger Global Management, Snowflake, Google Ventures, Databricks Ventures, Coatue, Sequoia Capital and ICONIQ Growth.
Principal
2018 - 2021
Dell Technologies Capital is the financially-driven investment arm for Dell Technologies. We lead investments in disruptive, early-stage startups in enterprise and cloud infrastructure. Some past companies include Arista, JFrog, Redis Labs, Docusign, Redlock, Twistlock, and Zscaler. I focused on cybersecurity, data infrastructure, and crypto/blockchain. Investments: BastionZero (acq. by Cloudflare, Series A/Board Director), Remediant (acq. by Netwrix, Series A/Board Observer), Cequence Security (Series B/Board Observer), Clovyr (Lead Seed), Soluble (acq. by Lacework, Lead Seed), Appdome (Board Observer)
Dell Technologies Capital is a VC arm of Dell Technologies that invests in enterprise and cloud infrastructure.
Co-Founder
2015 - 2018
A summer program for early stage security startups started with Sean Dalton (Meteor VC, formerly Highland). Notable portfolio companies: Huntress Labs, Akita Software (acquired by Postman), Oso, BastionZero (acq. by Cloudflare), Pixm, Gitlinks (acquired by Infor), BlueFyre (acquired by Threat Stack) Source, evaluate, and mentor the teams on business and technical security strategy. Built a community of industry mentors who are top executives in successful security companies, such as Akamai, Imprivata, Rapid7, Tenable, Qualys, and Cybereason.
Research Assistant
2012 - 2018
I did my PhD in the PDOS lab at MIT, advised by Nickolai Zeldovich and James Mickens. I wrote 5 first-author papers, which were published at top-tier systems and security conferences. My research was at the intersection of cybersecurity, distributed systems, and cryptography.
Venture Fellow
2014 - 2018
Sourcing and investing in pre-seed student startups (focused on enterprise). Notable investments: Instabase, LogRocket, GitLinks (acquired by Infor)
Security Engineer Research Intern
2013 - 2013
Built applications to analyze security logs and improve incident reponse.
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Software Engineering Intern
2012 - 2012
I worked on the Security Research Team under Elie Bursztein and Ulfar Erlingsson. I worked closely with the Chrome cache team to improve security and performance of Google Chrome, specifically to reduce vulnerabilities caused by third-party Javascript libraries.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Research Assistant
2010 - 2012
I worked under Dan Boneh in the computer security lab. I did a variety of projects involving applied cryptography and computer security.
Research Assistant
2011 - 2011
I worked under John C Mitchell. I designed and implemented a secure health information exchange system using advanced cryptographic tools and logic programming.
Research Assisant
2009 - 2010
I worked in the Flow Physics and Computational Engineering Lab. I developed computational tools to perform analysis on electrochemical energy systems.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
2012 - 2018
BS with Honors
2008 - 2012