about me.
if you're reading this, you're probably trying to ship something ambitious without lighting production on fire. same. by day i'm a senior staff security engineer at a large language model company. nights and weekends i run evalops, a lab focused on breaking brittle model behavior before customers notice.
instead of trusting vibes, i wire up systematic evals that stress-test model behavior, force honest scoring on outputs, and surface failure modes before they escape to production—whether you're running commercial apis or your own tuned checkpoints.
the playbook comes from years of shipping security tooling. i led security platform integrations at vanta, co-founded threatkey, and kept teams like snap, doordash, and carta out of the headlines. those roles taught me to measure twice, deploy once.
translation: i obsess over durable systems, crisp feedback loops, and teams who want receipts for the claims their models make.
quick hits
- • powered by analog notebooks, single-origin espresso, and aggressively curated playlists.
- • collects security war stories, then turns them into playbooks that teammates can actually run.
- • runs evalops at night and on weekends while the day job keeps production guardrails sharp.
- • takes thinking breaks on san francisco's 49-mile scenic drive with a field recorder for stray ideas.
- • hosts friday pizza nights starring doughvid—the temperamental sourdough starter who's somehow family now.
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senior staff security engineer
stealth llm company, sep 2025 - present
lead security for the large language model stack, keeping evals, guardrails, and response tight.
- • built an embedded security program alongside applied research and infra teams
- • wired model evaluation signals into production change management
- • scaled incident response rituals that include model behavior reviews
senior product manager
vanta, oct 2024 - aug 2025
brought on to advance vanta's next-generation security automation vision.
- • led strategic security integrations across cloud, code, and infrastructure platforms
- • built partnerships with wiz, github, gitlab, and other key security vendors
- • developed comprehensive integration strategy for compliance automation ecosystem
co-founder & ceo
threatkey, oct 2020 - oct 2024
pioneered ai evaluation methods for compliance automation
- • built custom evaluation datasets for security compliance tasks
- • developed model-graded evaluation framework for policy analysis
- • created domain-specific benchmarks for legal text classification
- • achieved 95%+ accuracy through rigorous evaluation methodology
lead, security operations
carta, nov 2020 - jul 2021
led security operations for equity management platform
- • built security operations from ground up
- • implemented incident response protocols
- • left to go full-time on threatkey
beyond work
when i'm not building security tools, you'll find me slow-walking san francisco's 49-mile scenic route, cooking dishes from my travels across 37 countries, or hosting pizza nights featuring doughvid—my temperamental but talented sourdough starter. i believe the best ideas come from diverse experiences, whether that's exploring a new neighborhood, perfecting a recipe, or debugging code at 2 AM.