Career path · 80 profiles
Engineer or practitioner
80 profiled security leaders carry the “Engineer or practitioner” career-path tag, 67 in a role their sources show as current. The newest are Victor Chang (Backstory), Fahmi Megdiche (Medius) and Kobi Sivilya (Checkmarx), the latest published 12 November 2026.
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Aanchal Gupta
Chief Security Officer (CSO)
Adobe
Alan Rosa
Chief Information Security Officer and SVP, Infrastructure and Operations
CVS Health
Alexander Truskovsky
Chief Information Security Officer
EigenQ
Alfredo Hickman
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Kai
Amy Herzog
Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Andrew Park
Chief Information Security Officer
UltraViolet Cyber
Attila Török
Chief Information Security Officer
GoTo
Barry Childe
Chief Information Security Officer
Datavault AI Inc.
Bill Dunnion
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Mitel
Chris Jacquet
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Unisys
Christopher Porter
Global Chief Information Security Officer
Booz Allen Hamilton
CJ Moses
Chief Information Security Officer and VP of Security Engineering
Amazon
Clay Carter
Chief Information Security Officer
Ncontracts
Clayton Peddy
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
ABBYY
Cliff Hou
Chief Information Security Officer
TSMC
Colin Anderson
Chief Information Security Officer
Dayforce
Dale Hoak
Chief Information Security Officer
RegScale
Dane Stuckey
Co-Chief Information Security Officer
OpenAI
Danny Rittman
Chief Information Officer
Avant Technologies, Inc.
Dave McKenna
Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer
IDC
David Cross
Chief Information Security Officer
Atlassian
David Nolan
Chief Security Officer
Trimont
David Raymond
Associate Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer
Virginia Tech
Dean Macris
Chief Information Security Officer
Dispel
Deepen Desai
EVP, Chief Security Officer
Zscaler
Donna Hart
Chief Information Security Officer for the Americas
SMBC
Doug Bowers
Chief Information Security Officer
MongoDB
Douglas Merrill
Chief Information Security Officer
Equinix
Drew McCombs
Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer
Cylerity
Eric Hammersley
Chief Information Security Officer
IREN Limited
Fahmi Megdiche
Chief Information Security Officer
Medius
Fredrick Lee
Chief Information Security Officer
Gerald Beuchelt
Chief Information Security Officer
Acronis
Greg Akers
Advisor and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Dispersive Stealth Networking
Heather Lowrie
Independent Advisor
CyberEdBoard
Hemant Chaskar
Chief Information Security Officer
Nile
Igor Tsyganskiy
Chief Information Security Officer
Microsoft
Jacob DePriest
Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Information Officer
1Password
Jameeka Green Aaron
Chief Information Security Officer
Headspace
James Johnson
Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer
Deere & Company
James Scobey
Chief Information Security Officer
Keeper Security, Inc.
Joel Fulton
Chief Information Security Officer
Veritas Capital
John Godfrey
Chief Information Security Officer
State of Kansas, Kansas Information Security Office (KISO)
John Qian
Chief Information Security Officer
Aviatrix
John Walton
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Nubank
Joshua Reedy
Chief Information Security Officer
Kordia Group
Justin Greer
Chief Information Security Officer
Purdue University
Kobi Sivilya
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Checkmarx
Lea Kissner
Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President
Leon Rishniw
founding Chief Information Security Officer
1Fort
Lucas Moody
Chief Information Security Officer
Astera Labs
Mat Steinlin
Chief Information Security Officer
Opti9
Matt Kimpel
Chief Information Security Officer
Magna5
Michael Adams
Group Vice President (GVP) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Docusign
Michael Lockhart
Chief Information Security Officer
Vensure Employer Solutions
Michael Mestrovich
Chief Information Security Officer
Rubrik
Michael Palmer
Chief Information Security Officer
Hearst
Michael Sikorski
Chief Information Security Officer
Coinbase
Mike Hanley
Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer
General Motors
Mike Marshall
State Chief Information Security Officer
California Department of Technology
Nicholas Kathmann
Chief Information Security Officer
LogicGate
Nichole Windholz
Chief Information Security Officer
Onspring
Noopur Davis
Global Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Product Privacy Officer
Comcast
Olivia Brännlund
Chief Information Security Officer
Outpost24
Paras Malhotra
Chief Information Security Officer
Starburst
Pascal van Garderen
Managing Director, Chief Information Security Officer
Oak Hill Advisors
Philip Martin
Chief Information Security Officer
Uber
Pritesh Parekh
Chief Information Security Officer
PagerDuty
Rob Duhart
Chief Security Officer
Oracle
Scott Metro
Chief Technology Officer
Hazeltree
Sean Cassidy
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Plaid
Sebastian Welsh
Chief Information Security Officer
SwitchDin
Stephen Ford
Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer
Rockwell Automation
Steve Hodges
State Chief Information Security Officer
Georgia Technology Authority
Summer Craze Fowler
Chief Information Security Officer
Torc Robotics
Talha Tariq
Chief Information Officer and Chief Security Officer
HashiCorp
Terrence Driscoll
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Cyware
Victor Chang
Chief Information Security Officer
Backstory
Warren Bailey
Chief Information Security Officer
Foundation Source
William Bengtson
Chief Information Security Officer
ConductorOne