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How Security Engineers Can Change the World
About the session
What do disaster relief in Sierra Leone and AI safety in San Francisco have in common?
For Dustin Li, a founding security engineer at Anthropic and Special Programs Director with the IT Disaster Resource Center (ITDRC), the answer is impact: using engineering skills where they matter most.
This session will explore real-world challenges, proven approaches, and emerging tools shaping the future of secure AI.
Discussion topics include:
- How Anthropic's security team uses Claude to efficiently generate threat models, improve code security, and maintain visibility across a rapidly growing organization
- Real-world impact stories from Dustin's work with ITDRC, how technology serves communities in crisis, and what security means when the stakes are life and death
- What it's like to build security at one of the fastest-growing AI companies: the culture, the challenges, and the opportunities
- Why engineering skills translate directly to humanitarian work, and how to get involved
Bonus: Anthropic is actively hiring. Dustin will share insights into the company’s culture and opportunities for engineers interested in shaping the future of AI security.
Community Speaker:
Dustin Li
Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
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About Dustin
Dustin Li bridges two worlds: enterprise AI security at scale and technology deployment in humanitarian crises. As a founding security engineer at Anthropic, he plays a key role in securing Claude - one of the world's most widely adopted AI platforms - driving threat modeling, vulnerability management, and efforts to reduce security risk across complex AI infrastructure. He joined Anthropic because he believes getting AI safety right is one of the highest-impact problems of our time.
When he's not securing Anthropic’s code and infrastructure, Dustin is probably on a plane to somewhere most people are trying to leave. He serves as Special Programs Director for the IT Disaster Resource Center (ITDRC), and previously deployed to disaster zones with Cisco Tactical Operations and the United Nations Emergency Telecommunications Cluster. One deployment took him to Sierra Leone during the Ebola crisis, where his connectivity solutions enabled thousands of medical professionals to combat the outbreak - a fitting turn for someone who holds a patent for rapid biological sample preparation systems designed for first responders. He also deployed to Haiti following the devastating 2021 earthquake.
An "#OpsGeek" at heart, Dustin believes the most meaningful work happens at the intersection of technical excellence and human impact.
When he's not securing Anthropic’s code and infrastructure, Dustin is probably on a plane to somewhere most people are trying to leave. He serves as Special Programs Director for the IT Disaster Resource Center (ITDRC), and previously deployed to disaster zones with Cisco Tactical Operations and the United Nations Emergency Telecommunications Cluster. One deployment took him to Sierra Leone during the Ebola crisis, where his connectivity solutions enabled thousands of medical professionals to combat the outbreak - a fitting turn for someone who holds a patent for rapid biological sample preparation systems designed for first responders. He also deployed to Haiti following the devastating 2021 earthquake.
An "#OpsGeek" at heart, Dustin believes the most meaningful work happens at the intersection of technical excellence and human impact.
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