Cybersecurity Engineer | Enterprise Architect | AI Product Builder
25+ years designing, building, operating, and modernizing secure, scalable, production-ready systems.
Cybersecurity, cloud architecture, and AI-enabled product leader with 25+ years of experience designing, building, operating, and modernizing secure, scalable, production-ready systems. Strong background across enterprise architecture, platform engineering, DevSecOps, software delivery, cloud operations, security engineering, and AI-enabled product development.
Known for taking loosely defined business goals and turning them into practical technical direction, secure architectures, measurable delivery plans, and working products. Combines strategic systems thinking with deep hands-on execution across AWS, Linux, Go, cloud platforms, security engineering, automation, and modern delivery practices.
Experienced leading teams, shaping product direction, reducing operational friction, managing technical budgets, improving supportability, and applying AI where it materially improves speed, analysis, automation, remediation, and delivery outcomes.
AI product architecture, AI workflow integration, LLM-enabled features, AI-driven enterprise tools, AI-assisted analysis, AI-assisted remediation, model-aware product design, workflow automation, decision support, product definition, outcome-driven design, idea-to-MVP acceleration, enterprise AI use cases.
Cybersecurity engineering, cybersecurity architecture, security by design, secure-by-default systems, DevSecOps, secure SDLC, vulnerability management, cloud security, zero trust, security automation, operational hardening, reliability engineering, observability, risk reduction, secure platform controls.
Enterprise architecture, solution architecture, cloud architecture, platform architecture, distributed systems, backend platform design, systems integration, API design, RESTful services, Go / Golang, Linux, systems programming, platform engineering, infrastructure design, Terraform / Terragrunt tooling.
Technical leadership, engineering leadership, cross-functional collaboration, executive communication, product and engineering alignment, supportability, cost-aware design, friction reduction, scalable delivery, team leadership, budget ownership, technical strategy, product strategy, operational maturity.
Lead Cybersecurity Engineer
Lead cybersecurity engineering efforts focused on secure, scalable systems aligned with business, platform, and operational needs. Translate security, cloud, and platform requirements into practical technical solutions across architecture, workflows, systems, integrations, and operational controls. Support AI security and governance work by evaluating AI-enabled tools, workflows, and risks through a practical cybersecurity and architecture lens.
Chief Executive Officer
Founded and led a security-focused product company serving enterprise security, developer workflow, automation, and AI-enabled delivery needs. Designed product concepts and technical systems around security consulting automation, cloud posture improvement, vulnerability analysis, SBOM/CVE/CPE workflows, and remediation support.
Scientific System Administrator, Research Computing
Provided scientific systems administration and platform support within a research computing environment. Supported compute, storage, Linux systems, operational workflows, and infrastructure needs tied to data-intensive research workloads.
Enterprise Architect
Provided architecture and technical direction across platform, engineering, infrastructure, security, and systems initiatives. Translated loosely defined technical and business goals into implementable architecture, systems direction, and execution plans.
VP, Cloud Operations & Engineering
Led cloud operations and engineering for secure, scalable platform services. Supported cloud-delivered cybersecurity capabilities involving secure access, device visibility, identity-aware controls, segmentation, and operationally realistic security architecture.
Senior Cloud Architect
Focused on cloud architecture, platform design, and delivery in security-intensive environments. Helped bridge startup-speed cloud systems with larger-company requirements around scale, security, reliability, governance, and operational maturity.
Vice President of Operations (Technical)
Scaled systems and technical operations through company growth and acquisition by Palo Alto Networks. Supported cloud security product delivery, infrastructure reliability, platform operations, automation, monitoring, and operational maturity.
Desktop Markdown editor with first-class Mermaid diagram support: Monaco editing, live preview, Mermaid Studio, workspaces, multi-format export, and in-app updates. Keywords: Tauri, Rust, React, TypeScript, Monaco, Mermaid, Markdown, desktop application, open source, MIT.
Built a key-value database package with XChaCha20 encryption for both in-memory and at-rest protection. Keywords: Go, Golang, key-value database, XChaCha20, encryption, secure storage, in-memory protection, at-rest encryption, open source.
Created a virtual-environment style workflow for Terraform and Terragrunt, similar in concept to Python venv. Keywords: Terraform, Terragrunt, infrastructure automation, platform engineering, developer experience, environment management, open source.
Go / Golang, C, RESTful services, systems programming, automation tooling, backend services, API-centric design, Terraform / Terragrunt tooling, CLI tooling, secure software design.
AWS, cloud architecture, Linux, platform engineering, infrastructure design, reliability engineering, observability, deployment pipelines, operational design, production operations, cloud operations, infrastructure operations.
Cybersecurity architecture, secure SDLC, vulnerability management, security automation, zero trust, risk reduction, secure platform controls, security by design, cloud security, DevSecOps, operational hardening.
AI tool integration, workflow automation, AI-assisted product delivery, LLM-enabled features, AI for analysis and remediation, enterprise AI use cases, model-aware product design, AI product architecture, decision support.
Cybersecurity Engineer, Cybersecurity Architecture, Security Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Senior Cloud Architect, Lead Cybersecurity Engineer, AI Product Builder, AI Product Architecture, AI Workflow Integration, AI Tool Integration, AI-Assisted Product Delivery, LLM-Enabled Features, AI-Driven Enterprise Tools, AI for Analysis and Remediation, AI Security, AI Governance, DevSecOps, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Operations, VP Cloud Operations, VP Cloud Engineering, Technical Operations, Research Computing, Scientific Systems Administration, Linux, AWS, Go, Golang, C, RESTful Services, API Design, Systems Programming, Distributed Systems, Backend Services, Infrastructure Automation, Terraform, Terragrunt, Observability, Reliability Engineering, Operational Hardening, Vulnerability Management, Secure SDLC, Zero Trust, Security Automation, Cloud Security, Secure Platform Controls, Product Strategy, Technical Strategy, Engineering Leadership, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Executive Communication, Cost-Aware Design, Supportability, Friction Reduction, Scalable Delivery, Open Source.