I help companies and individual improving the ROI of their engineering teams.

These are the problems I will help you with:

❌ Lack of strong leadership in the engineering team
❌ Unclear structures and roles in your team
❌ Unclear strategy and direction for your engineering team
❌ Lack of business alignment
❌ Low productivity
❌ High Technical debt 
❌ Lots of incidents and outages
❌ Frictions between the engineering team and other areas
❌ Lack of clear career paths for members of your team
❌ Need for mentoring and coaching of individuals in the management and leadership journey.

As I've been in the tech industry for more than 20+, 15 of which in leadership positions, I've learnt a great deal about how to solve such common problems in engineering teams in both big and small companies.

I offer my services as:

✅ Business minded Technical Advisor 
✅ Consultant on specific projects
✅ Fractional CTO for companies in need for a part-time expert
✅ Coach for individual leaders who want to accelerate their career growth

I can work both with companies that need help to improve the value generated by their engineering teams as well as individuals that want to become better leaders and managers.

📝 I share generously my expertise both via LinkedIn and via my newsletter "Sudo Make Me a CTO" that invite you to join.

📲 If you have problems with your engineering teams, or with your own career journey please reach out.

📅 I'd be delighted to have an initial complimentary 30 minutes call to get a better understanding of your situation and come up with a tailored offer to help you see visible improvements in a reasonable time frame.

🤝 Let's connect!

Sergio Visinoni

Realm Labs

Building the next generation of Authentication, Authorization, and Audit platforms for enterprises to secure AI applications.

If you're:
  * Building AI applications in your company (RAG, Agents)
  * Using SaaS AI applications and fearing about your data security (CoPilot, Glean)

We can help! Realm AI Detection and Response and Agent Auth platform provides you a specialized security tool to secure your all AI needs. Built by a team of AI security experts.

Cofounder and Head of Engineering

Packt

Authored pragmatic security book: The Complete Guide to Defense in Depth

Author

Tola Capital

Advisor

Apple

* Led modernization of Authorization framework for ultra-large training platform (~500 PB per mo) to improve security and performance (latency)
* Led Zero Trust adoption across AIML training infrastructure
* Partnered with external organizations to secure AI use cases (including health, payment, and maps)
* Led penetration testing and partnered with first and third parties to assess the security of the Siri training pipeline
* Developed and led the organization (>500 FTEs) for HIPAA and PCI certification for AIML
* Led mitigation of 3 industry-wide zero-days and aligned the organization for reducing future exposure (partnered with 10+ teams)
* Participated in Apple-wide Supply Chain security effort to create roadmaps for the company (>100,000 developers)

Security Leader AIML

Google

* Led the Chrome Infra Security team focused on Insider Risk and Supply Chain Security (TL)
* Contributed to and led the implementation of SLSA at Google by launching them in Chrome (Engineering Excellence Award Winner)
* Led Security Reviews at Chrome Infra by performing 100+ reviews & training others
* Security PoC for multiple org-wide policies
* SME Lead for Google Cyber Security Career Certificate program and helped launch the product
* Contributed to Project Shield in multiple critical customer-facing issues
* Python readability reviewer for Google codebase (performed 1000+ code reviews)

Tech Lead - Software Engineer (Security)

Proofpoint

* Performed penetration tests on production microservices
* Worked with developers to go through the entire lifecycle of development
* Collaborated to create a security culture around Software Deevelopment

Senior Security Engineer - Penetration Tester

Credit Karma

* Led the automation effort here in Credit Karma Infrastructure Security team
* Worked with different SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation & Response) platforms including Phantom, Demisto
* Architected & deployed Demisto in Credit Karma ecosystem in a semi-air-gapped environment with HA mode
* Built a process from coming up with a use case to fully automating it
* Built an end-to-end repeatable process for regular audits of software installed in a corporate environment to identify the presence of any vulnerabilities/risks

Security Engineer

Perfit Inc.

Perfit Inc. is a LA based start-up. My responsibility includes overseeing every technological details implemented/ planned to be implemented.

Security Architect

Amgen

•	Contributed to build the baseline technical security controls that will support different project teams enterprise-wide
•       Lead the Cloud Security Work Group to ensure enforcement of proper security controls with various CSPs.
•	Automated  existing information security processes working with security monitoring team
•	Contributed and documented to the assessment and implementation of Cloud Access Security Broker solution
•	Developed Privacy Policy for Global Data Lake to centralize healthcare/pharmaceutical data of Amgen product users

Information Security Grad Intern

Mentor Graphics

Debugged more than 70% of existing issues in upcoming Simulation Software for its authenticity and reliability using Shell Scripting, Tcl/Tk, Verilog
Prepared a new suite of automated testing, and implemented 6 out of 9 proposed

Software Developer Intern

Leader @  Apple AIML | Former Tech Lead at Google | Helping spread Leadership Awareness in Software Engineering | Author at Leadership Letters Newsletter - subscribe now!

- Founder working on securing AI, with AI
- Experienced Security Leader solving frontier security problems
- AI Security researcher, securing large-scale data for Apple AIML
- Innovator and Co-developer for SLSA at Google (Chrome)
- Cybersecurity author of best-seller on Amazon
- Evangelist for making security accessible, no security theatre
- Advisor for upcoming security startups
- Ex-Google, Ex-Apple, Ex- Credit Karma

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