Ian Haken is a staff security software engineer at Netflix where has been working since 2016. His work includes development of tools and services that defend the Netflix platform such as the implementation of authentication and authorization solutions, access control management platforms, and cryptographic services. He has also contributed to open source and community projects such as BetterTLS and SPIFEE. Prior to working in information security, he received his PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2014 with a focus in computability theory and algorithmic information theory.