Jingyu (Jenny) Yang
About Jingyu (Jenny) Yang
Jingyu (Jenny) Yang is a Security Engineer at Headway, where she has worked since 2023. She has a diverse background in cybersecurity and software engineering, with previous roles at notable companies such as Microsoft, Okta, and GoDaddy.
Work at Headway
Jingyu Yang has been employed at Headway as a Security Engineer since 2023. In this role, she has contributed to improving vulnerability triage and remediation timelines. As one of the first two security engineers at the company, she designed and implemented vulnerability management and security review programs. Yang coordinated with external penetration testers to triage findings for remediation and integrated Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and secret scanning tools into the existing Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Additionally, she created metrics to track and measure the security posture of engineers and established multiple pathways for security learning, including designing a course through a secure development training tool.
Previous Experience
Before joining Headway, Jingyu Yang held several positions in the technology sector. She worked at Okta as a Senior Application Security Engineer for four months in 2023 and as an Application Security Engineer for three years from 2020 to 2023. Prior to that, she was employed at Microsoft, where she served as a Security Software Engineer for 11 months from 2019 to 2020 and as a Software Engineer for 10 months from 2018 to 2019. Yang also gained experience as a Software Engineering Intern at Microsoft in 2016 and as a Cybersecurity Intern at T-Mobile from 2017 to 2018. Earlier in her career, she worked at the University of Washington Foster School of Business Executive Education as a Discussion Section Leader from 2015 to 2016.
Education and Expertise
Jingyu Yang holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from New York University, which she completed from 2021 to 2022. She also earned a Bachelor of Science in Informatics and Psychology from the University of Washington, where she studied from 2014 to 2018. Her educational background provides her with a strong foundation in both technical and psychological aspects of cybersecurity, enhancing her ability to address security challenges in various environments.