SOME ENGINEERING - Key Persons
I started with economics and statistics, but then found networks and computers much more interesting. At my last two companies, we built observability products for microservices, Kubernetes, data pipelines, and cloud warehouses.
At Fix, I'm usually the first line of support for customers. I ask a lot of questions about your existing security stack and the compliance frameworks you need to track. Since I come from the cloud warehouse space and analytics engineering, I look at security data as just another data source that needs to be centralized and visualized in a dashboard.
I love writing about startups with my "Building Distribution" Substack. And I track cloud security companies and open source projects in my "Cloud Security List".
My background is in building secure distributed systems-from bare metal racked up in a data center running Linux, Windows, and FreeBSD to cloud platforms that securely connect vehicles, ships, and airplanes owned by the United States Government.
At Fix, I spend my time on Zoom calls with our users and turn their needs and feedback into new product capabilities. I built our original open source asset inventory and security graph that's now the foundation for Fix. The cloud is a graph, not a table-and security tooling should reflect that. I'm also our acting CISO, keeping our own infrastructure and systems secure.
I'm a gamer by heart, and attend Gamescom in Cologne every year. My Tuesday nights are blocked for playing D&D, and I also maintain a pretty popular Valheim server Docker image.
Before Fix, I was an Apache committer and the technical lead for Marathon, a highly available cluster scheduler for container orchestration for Apache Mesos. I also built the trip execution and vehicle dispatching system for MOIA, Volkswagen's ride pooling service.