We always get to hear about Sergei Brin, Eric Schmidt and Sundar Pichai whenever it is about Google but very few know about the person who keeps Google safe from the hackers. We are talking about Parisa Tabriz, the Iranian-Polish-American computer security expert who with her team of 30 security experts, works day and night to keep the web browser organization safe and secure.
Google doesn’t mind paying someone or hiring anybody who finds bug in their software and this is exactly how Parisa got her job in Google. She did her summer internship with the core security team of Google and after few months of graduating from the University of Illinois in 2006, she started working full-time with Google in 2007.
Parisa is known as the “security princess” and “browser boss” of Google. Not only this, she was also listed in the Forbes Magazine’s 30 people under 30, who were supposed to make big in the field of technology.
Parisa says that working as a security expert in reality is very different from what it looks like in movies. She writes in her blog, “I started learning about security back in college from peers.”
She told Telegraph,
“Today, hacking can be ugly. The guy who published the private photos of those celebrities online made headlines everywhere. What he did was not only a violation of these women but it was criminal, and as a hacker I was very saddened by it.”
Other than being a hacker, Parisa is also a rock-climber and she likes to make gelato. She is definitely an inspiration for all the ladies out there who want to make big in the technology field, which has always been dominated by men.
You go, girl!
