Apr 2025 — Present
Senior Security Engineering Manager, Product Security — Menlo Security
- Owning AppSec strategy: secure coding practices, security automation, and embedding AppSec in the SDLC.
- Closed gaps across cloud & product security, improving threat detection and risk mitigation.
- Built security awareness programs and partnered closely with compliance (SOC2, FedRAMP, ISO27001).
- Maintained robust product security through multi-cloud migrations (AWS/GCP) and established HSM-backed key/cert management.
Apr 2021 — Present
Vice President, Technology — Pioneera Ventures
- Strategic Planning: Developing and implementing technology strategies that align with the company's business objectives and contribute to its long-term success.
- Financial Acumen and Budgeting: Managing the technology budget, allocating resources efficiently, and ensuring IT investments provide a strong return. They must understand the firm's value creation plan and be able to communicate technology investment trade-offs to investors.
- Team Leadership: Leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing technology teams. They are responsible for recruitment, training, and fostering a culture of innovation.
- Risk Management and Cybersecurity: Protecting sensitive data, implementing robust cybersecurity policies, and ensuring compliance with industry regulations.
- Innovation Management: Identifying emerging technologies and trends that can enhance efficiency and competitiveness. This includes leading digital transformation initiatives.
- Due Diligence and Deal Support: Working with deal teams to evaluate and execute technology investments. This may involve conducting due diligence on target companies and building financial models to assess potential returns.
Mar 2019 — Present
Security Advisor — Fides Innova
- Cryptographic Architecture & Strategy: Advise on the security architecture of a decentralized verifiable computing platform, leveraging Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) and blockchain consensus mechanisms to ensure data integrity and privacy across IoT and Machine Learning ecosystems.
- Decentralized Trust Frameworks: Provide technical guidance on designing trustless, distributed networks, ensuring secure interoperability and verifiable data exchange for smart homes and industrial automation.
- Secure Ecosystem Design: Champion secure-by-design principles for the Fides Innova ecosystem, addressing complex attack vectors in decentralized infrastructure and enabling secure monetization of IoT data.
Aug 2021 — Mar 2025
Security Engineering Manager, Product Security — Menlo Security
- Scaled security automation and built guardrails in CI/CD (SAST, SBOM, container scanning).
- Launched and grew a Security Champions program to shift security left.
- Drove remediation from internal/external testing and bug bounty findings; optimized tooling spend.
Mar 2021 — Jul 2022
Senior Security Engineer, Product Security — Menlo Security
- Built hardened base images (AMIs/GCIs) meeting STIG/CIS; automated vuln scanning for instances.
- Integrated cryptographic controls (KMS/HSM) and secured data in transit/at rest.
- Partnered with dev teams to reduce risk across microservices & containers; produced FIPS-compliant Ubuntu base.
Nov 2018 — Feb 2021
Senior Security Engineer, R&D Cloud Security — Cisco
- Designed highly available cloud-native services powering Umbrella protections (DNS/SWG/CDFW).
- Migrated legacy stacks to AWS/GCP; instrumented secure logging and monitoring.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/Flux/Ansible/Rundeck) and modernized controls (SOC2).
Apr 2015 — Oct 2018
Lead Software Engineer, Dedicated Team — Broadridge Financial Solutions
- Played a key role in the development of Dataphile software products and the implementations of Canada Security CRM2 initiative.
- Developed software tools for effective conversion of the database systems for newly acquired clients, e.g. developed tools to convert IBM ISM database system to the Broadridge database system.
- Developed and deployed desktop and web applications that powered back-office processing, multi-currency record-keeping, and reporting for major Canadian banks and independent mutual fund dealers.
Sep 2007 — May 2008
RF and Firmware Engineer, R&D — Research In Motion
- Developed integrated testing and verification processes for RF modules with RF base-station emulators, spectrum analyzers, and network analyzers
- Researched regulatory standards for test/verification of the RF modules.