Susan Hinrichs is computer engineer who specializes in networking, security, and system development. She is a committer on the Apache Traffic Server project.

For the past six years Susan has lead efforts with the Edge team at Yahoo and now Verizon Media. Before that Susan has worked in a variety of positions including teaching computer security at the University of Illinois, freelancing work in networking and security, and a couple start ups. Susan participated in the tech bubble by working with a network security company that got acquired by Cisco.

Susan earned a PhD in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.