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Senior-most security leader (12+ ICs), splitting time between hands-on architecture and cross-functional execution.

• Drove response to many high-severity incidents, up to execs and across all orgs
• Championed rollout of AI dev tools (Claude) and gave company-wide talks/trainings
• Codified 'Ownership' for services to ensure CVEs are patched within Compliance SLAs
• Lead GDPR compliance with Legal; rewrote deletion pipeline and data inventory

Staff IC on the AI Security team, after ProdSec/AppSec.

• Designed security foundations (requirements + infrastructure) for AI/ML model training and inference
• Rolled out Smokescreen (HTTP egress proxy) to reduce model exfiltration risk
• Hardened Snowflake infrastructure and the data pipeline/vendor surface

Built a VC-backed open-source security company spanning Supply Chain Security, Data Security, and a Heroku-like AWS platform.

• Designed and shipped products from zero; raised $1.7mm and hired a team of 6+
• Coined "Log4Shell" and led the public-facing response that shaped industry framing of the Log4j vulnerability

• Helped build a secrets management platform for the org
• Led the effort to roll out an eng-wide RFC review process

Joined as an early engineer and worked across many teams through hypergrowth.

• Built "secure by default" full-stack web framework (Node/React) adopted org-wide
• Shipped uber.com v1 from scratch, working directly with the CEO
• Scaled AppSec program to "Let Builders Build" and ship faster via automation/process
• Created an org-wide security training program for engineers

Built a C#/WPF desktop app to generate flight plans for drones. Joined pre-funding; Airware went on to raise $120m.

Worked my butt off, raised $ from VCs, and learned how billion dollar startups are built.