Erin L. Havens
I'm the product lead for GitHub's secret scanning, which currently processes 275M pushes a month and surfaces 40M+ secret exposures a year. Before that I studied computer science and art history at McGill, writing my undergraduate thesis on Frank Stella's Black Paintings. Yes, I use AI.
Brings me joy
- Love of the product craft
- Proving something can be done, and that it can be done successfully
- Being surrounded by smarter people I can learn from
Job titles
2022–Senior Product Manager, Product Lead — Secret Scanning, GitHub
2021–22Product Manager, Dependabot Alerts, GitHub
2020–21Product Manager, Risk & Security Products, Visa
2018–20Rotation Program, Visa
2017Fellow, True Ventures
2016, 2015Software Engineering Intern, SAS
Selected releases
Originated and launched public monitoring, attributing publicly leaked secrets from arbitrary public repositories back to the enterprises that own them, in real time.
Released several cross-platform $MM SKUs — a massive undertaking involving Brand, billing and licensing systems, website, sales motions, and product surfaces.
Originated product-led growth motion for security products. Drives ~1k orgs/week through the SRA (50k+ runs to date) at 9.1% conversion. Since copied by competitors and other products at GitHub.
Originated policy engine, adopted by 100k+ users in less than 30 days, amounting to 50M+ reduction in false positives across the developer community.
From minimum viable product to minimum lovable. When I fell in love with the craft.