Today's focus
I'm focused on solving the customer pain living the detection engineering and detection validation space and building a SaaS product with a repeatable business model. We need to automate the process of building and deploying detections while reducing the expertise required.
Persona
Servant leadership is exactly that question: How can I help others to grow, success and flourish in their work?
Affiliations
Current tech stack
- JS, Terraform, Kube, Docker, Rust, Python, Postgres, PGvector, Gen AI models big and small
Hobbies
- Playing guitar, Listening to music, Refurbishing pinballs, Working out, Snowboarding, Cooking, Traveling, Exploring new geographies, New experiences
Season of Yes
I'm always up for idea sessions, collaborations, whiteboards, coffee, walks or concerts. Coffee is always a great place to start. I'm also a fan of meeting people where they are - so throw out something different and let's go do it together!
Coffee order
Cuban coffee or a double expresso
Fun fact
I have way too much music knowledge about your favorite artists, songs, albums and I have been a nationally ranked pinball player.
Role models
Godfrey Sullivan, Scott Howard, Chris Olson, John Conners, Tim Porter, Shane Shook, Laz, Steve Zalewski, Jim Routh
Why Seattle?
I came to Seattle to spend time with family and leave NYC with IBM at the time. I felt the culture here was so different. I now stay because I've learned a lot from people in the community here, and love collaborating and working with passionate people. Seattle is proof we don't need to live in Silicon Valley to build something meaningful.
Praise received
People in my life willing to share there time, thoughts, energy with me puts a smile on my face and may be the biggest compliment I could be paid. Compliments tend not to drive me as much. I like everything unvarnished. For me, paying it forward puts a smile on my face. I love hearing about people i've connected connecting with one another outside of me, hearing from others a positive impact they experienced with me through collaborating or helping others. Some of the most powerful feedback can be from someone who took the time to understand or hear, and share their experiences or feedback with me. I think that resonates most with me as a compliment.
Featured
Activity
Tradecraft
Areas of expertise
I'm passionate about security and start-ups, these are my best thematics of experience. I get calls to help with breaches and breach response, detection engineering, operational security, network traffic analysis and building strong teams. I'm deeply active in the CISO community around building security programs and managing risk, as well as startup product ideation. I am most happy working on making a security program better, building a product easing pain for practitioners, enriching company culture and 'Getting Shit Done'.
Areas of expertise
Collaborative values
The best collaborators find middle ground, understand before being understood, encourage respectful debate and critical thinking skills for problem solving. I've found experience to be a great teacher, but thinking skills and hard problems to be the best educator. Curiosity and engagement are wonderful, especially fueled by passion.
Collaborative values
Decision drivers
Honesty, Humility, Integrity, Mission-focus and Commitment drive my decision-making process. These are also common values we try to build a business and friendships on forming the bedrock of the trust and vulnerability you need to have in order to do your best work, live your best life, and make your best decisions for all involved.
