Work Summary
Team Builder: Experience recruiting, growing and leading large and distributed cross functional, engineering, advocacy, and product orgs (150 - 300+) with high productivity, cohesion, and retention while fostering a culture of inclusion & empathy
Cybersecurity: Penetration tester. I’ve assessed security for German companies in finance, automotive, and healthcare. I do embedded systems, web apps, infrastructure, and mobile pentesting. Red teaming too. OSCP and OSWE certified.
Open source: 15+ years experience including contributing to 6 of the largest open source projects (Go, Docker, Hugo, MongoDB, Linux, Cobra), defining open source strategies, and creating multiple projects with broad adoption and vibrant contributor & user communities.
Technology expertise: 10 years of professional experience as developer, engineer and cybersecurity expert authoring and contributing to some of the most widely used and respected technologies. Extraordinary breadth and depth across operating systems (Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, Serverless, QNX), languages (C, C++, Assembly, Go, JS, Rust, Lua), databases (SQL, NoSQL, BigData, stream, etc), embedded, desktop, web and mobile.
Engineering Management: 5 years of management experience setting technical and product strategy: establishing innovative technology teams and organization alignment adept at communicating complex technical topics simply to senior management, C-level & clients
Passions
- Volleyball
- Mountainbiking
- Farming