I’ve always had a passion for Security and startups, which has driven my career from the beginning. I joined IBM to work on the Apache project, testing their SSL protocol. From there, I joined the IBM Extreme Blue startup program, which moved me to Austin, Texas, which I now call home.
As an engineer, I’ve always wanted to see the impact of my work, so I worked as a sales engineer for IBM and then a startup called Innography. It was at Innography that I got my first-hand training on how to run a startup sales team, which led me to bootstrap and start my first threat intelligence security startup. After running and growing my first startup for a few years, I sold that startup to an identity theft provider.
When I was free from my golden handcuffs, I joined a friend’s startup, SecurityScorecard, to help them build out their sales and sales engineering team. That’s where I met my current co-founder Mike. We spent a few years building and growing SecurityScorecard before I got the itch to start another security startup, HackNotice.
I’ve been building HackNotice for a few years now and are bootstrapped, profitable, and growing rapidly.