10 Apple security engineers
Security Engineer, Senior Security Engineer and Security Engineering Lead are among the titles these ten Apple security engineers hold today. A reader can learn what security engineering at Apple involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
Adam Smith
LinkedInExperience: Security Engineering Lead · Apple
Adam Smith has been Security Engineering Lead at Apple since November 2025, and the profile also lists Staff Security Engineer at Apple from 2022 to 2026 and Senior Security Engineer - AI/ML at Apple from 2021 to 2022. The profile headline reads Security Engineering - AI, Search and Knowledge at Apple and lists security consultant roles at NCC Group from 2018 to 2021.
Brent Kolasinski
LinkedInExperience: Security Engineer - Strategic Risk · Apple
Brent Kolasinski has been Security Engineer - Strategic Risk at Apple since August 2026, after serving as Security Engineering Program Manager at Apple from 2025 to 2026. The profile also lists Deputy Director, Information Security at Gates Foundation (2023–2025) and Senior Security Engineer, AWS Cryptography at Amazon Web Services (AWS) (2021–2023).
Chris Newman
LinkedInExperience: Security Engineering Manager · Apple
Chris Newman has been a Security Engineering Manager at Apple since March 2021, after serving as Security Engineering Manager at VMware from 2016 to 2021. The profile also lists Senior Security Engineer at VMware (2013–2016) and Reverse Engineer / Software Engineer at General Dynamics Mission Systems (2002–2013), and describes leading security teams.
Erik Steringer
LinkedInExperience: Security Engineer · Apple
Erik Steringer has been a Security Engineer at Apple since April 2022, after serving as Principal Security Consultant at NCC Group from 2021 to 2022. The profile also lists Senior Security Consultant at NCC Group (2016–2021) and Student Security Analyst at the University of Oregon (2015–2016).
Eshaan Mathur
LinkedInExperience: Senior Security Engineer · Apple
Eshaan Mathur has been a Senior Security Engineer at Apple since April 2025, based in Austin, after serving as a Security Engineer at Apple from 2023 to 2025. The profile also lists Cloud Security Engineer (2022–2023) and Information Security Analyst (2021–2022) at American Express.
Harshit Batra
LinkedInExperience: Security Engineer · Apple
Harshit Batra has been a Security Engineer at Apple since January 2025, based in Hyderabad, after serving as a Software Engineer at Apple from 2021 to 2025. The profile also lists Associate Consulting Engineer at MongoDB from 2020 to 2021 and developer roles at Kare Plus and Daphnis Labs.
Hope Hong
LinkedInExperience: Senior Security Engineer · Apple
Hope Hong has been a Senior Security Engineer at Apple since October 2024, after serving as a Security Engineer at Apple from 2022 to 2024. The profile also lists research staff roles in Cyber-Physical Systems Security (G51) at MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 2019 to 2022 and describes a specialty in cybersecurity research.
Joe Auricchio
LinkedInExperience: Security Engineer, SPEAR Apps and Frameworks · Apple
Joe Auricchio has been Security Engineer, SPEAR Apps and Frameworks at Apple since July 2024, after serving as a System Software Engineer at Apple from 2012 to 2024. The profile describes past work on launchd and libxpc, launching and connecting daemons in macOS and iOS, and low-level userspace libraries.
Lisa Thalheim
LinkedInExperience: Staff Security Engineer · Apple
Lisa Thalheim has been a Staff Security Engineer at Apple since October 2021, based in Berlin, after serving as a Security Engineer at Apple from 2018 to 2021. The profile describes security assessments and vulnerability research and a current focus on machine learning security as well as infrastructure and software security.
Robert S Mozayeni
LinkedInExperience: Security Engineer, SPEAR Apps and Frameworks · Apple
Robert S Mozayeni has been Security Engineer, SPEAR Apps and Frameworks at Apple since April 2025, after serving as visionOS UI Frameworks Engineer at Apple from 2022 to 2025. The profile also lists Software Engineer roles at Apple from 2017 to 2022 and describes being an iOS developer.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's security specialty to your question, since application, infrastructure, machine learning and risk-focused security work each draw on different skills. Consider where the person worked beforehand, since engineers who came from consultancies, cloud providers or research labs can compare different security settings.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you decide which security issues to fix first in your area?
- 02How do you work with software engineers so security reviews do not slow them down?
- 03What skills from earlier security work have mattered most in your current role?
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