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I’m a senior cybersecurity leader with 20+ years of experience engineering technology to safeguard companies, products, and complex cloud environments. Balancing technical complexity with business strategy, I’ve played a crucial role in advancing the development of secure architectures, tools, policies, and procedures across diverse startup, enterprise, and government entities, including NASA, and Bain & Company. I excel at building and mentoring high-performing, cross-functional teams and cultivating strong stakeholder relationships. I fell in love with the security industry early on. With a natural ability to understand complex concepts, I launched my career in networking and the open-source world exploring new ways to innovate. I learned to build high-performance computing (HPC) systems at Teradata and supported special projects at NAVAIR. A collaborative leader with an unwavering commitment to security and continuous learning, I served as one of the first contributors to OpenStack cloud at NASA and HPE Cloud, leading supercomputer and HPC team projects supporting computational fluid dynamics and security. Valued for my ability to solve cutting-edge problems, I’m known for resolving high-stress incidents and tackling difficult technical challenges. As a senior engineer at ViaSat, I designed, built, and secured a complex, one-of-a-kind Kubernetes environment that supported 124 government agencies and commercial projects. At Ontra, I created the first vendor security process, developing a secure continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline that enhanced the Cybersecurity Maturity Model (CMM) by 1.2 points, propelling the startup organization forward towards enterprise. An active voice in shaping business plans, outlining future horizons, and ensuring a strong foundation for business growth, I’ve been recruited to, and currently serve on, multiple cybersecurity advisory boards. Technical Expertise: • AI, ML, IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, Cloud Native, AWS EKS, Google GKS, Docker, Cloud, Kubernetes, and Application Security Posture Management (CSPM, KSPM, ASPM) • Secure by Design, Secure by Default, S-SDLC, Application Security (Gitlab, Github, BurpSuite), Bug Bounty • DevSecOps, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR/XDR) (Crowdstrike and SentinalOne), SIEM (Splunk, DataDog), IAM (Sailpoint, OKTA, Auth0), Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA)(Zscaler, Netskope) • High Scalability Computing, CFD, PGI Compiler, Message Passing Interface (MPI) • Terraform, YAML, HELM, Ansible, Bash, Golang, Python, Postgres SQL • FedRAMP, NIST, SOC2, ISO27001, PII. PCI