What I'm doing now

Work

Senior Security Engineer at CircleCI. Focused on cloud security, detection engineering, incident response, and security automation in FedRAMP and SOC 2-aligned environments. Building better alerting pipelines, tightening access controls, and running tabletop exercises.

Southside CHI Solutions

Still running my consulting practice for Chicago small businesses. Focused on helping organizations that don't have a security team figure out what they actually need to protect themselves. Writing about CVEs and supply chain attacks on the Southside CHI blog.

Learning and building

• AI/LLM security: prompt injection, agent access control, secure AI adoption
• Detection-as-code patterns and scaling alerting for small teams
• Building personal projects and writing field notes

Personal

Being a dad. That comes first.