AI Safety & Security Engineering Executive

Founded and led Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's CEO-sponsored Cloud & AI Safety organization, reporting to the Security CTO. Built the operating model, hired 43 people in 15 months, and established hazard management, customer harm analysis, applied safety engineering, executive forums, and AI-enabled platforms across more than 300 services.

Created OCI safety rules for AI agents, including permitted behaviors, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, evidence requirements, stop-and-recovery procedures, and two-pilot validation. Led launch-risk and hazard assessments for AI agent systems, including a Model Context Protocol agent marketplace and autonomous coding assistants.

Designed and ran 24 safety-focused chaos engineering exercises across 22 services, finding 100 systemic hazards, including 41 high-severity hazards. Led critical service assessments, remediation, executive incident governance, and safety culture initiatives including the Choose Safety value and a volunteer Safety Advocates network.

Served as senior technical advisor to the Cyber CTO on Zero Trust, secure software delivery, and vulnerability management. Led enterprise resilience for flagship customer login and credit card platforms.

Created the OneChaos platform across 2,600 cloud applications and invented Latency Squeeze Injection using AWS Fault Injection Service. Expanded continuous experimentation from thousands to millions of runs annually and established Service Level Objectives as board-level risk appetite metrics.

Co-founded and served as CTO for a venture-backed resilience and security software company of approximately 50 people. Delivered the Verica Continuous Verification Platform to continuously test security and operational assumptions in customer Kubernetes and Kafka environments.

Acqui-hired the creator of Prowler and launched ProwlerPro as a cloud security posture management business line. Launched TheVoid public software incident repository, raised $16 million across multiple rounds, negotiated a multi-year $15 million Dish Wireless contract, and secured AWS as the largest customer.

Led enterprise security architecture and engineering across UnitedHealth Group and Optum, covering 380 companies, 100 legal entities, and 33 countries. Managed more than 60 FTE, an engineering team in India, and a budget exceeding $20 million.

Built and open-sourced ChaoSlingr, the first application of Security Chaos Engineering. Delivered enterprise secrets management, container security, secure infrastructure as code, SOC services, ransomware threat intelligence, cloud access security, and secure CI/CD capabilities.

Reduced software delivery time from six weeks to five minutes through automated CI/CD and security as code, saving more than $3 million monthly. Led cloud security architecture across AWS, Azure, and Salesforce and directed cybersecurity and privacy integration for more than 30 acquisitions.

Served as Enterprise Information Security Architect, including Tier 3 incident response responsibilities.

Served as Lead Security Architect and Security Officer, and led the Department of Homeland Security's first private cloud. Held TS/SCI clearance.

Worked as Lead Software Engineer and Senior Information System Security Officer within NASA Goddard Safety & Mission Assurance.

Directed application engineering for University of Missouri Health System Biodesign.

Worked as a Strategic Implementation Consultant.

Worked as an Oracle database administrator and database software engineer.

Served as a non-commissioned officer and systems/network engineering manager during Operation Enduring Freedom and CJTF–HOA.

B.S. in Economics.

Certified Information Systems Security Professional certification.

GIAC Security Essentials Certification.