Champ Clark
Chief Executive Officer at Quadrant Information Security
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChamp Clark is a seasoned technology executive and security-focused entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Key9 Identity since 2023, building a passwordless, zero-trust identity provider based on FIDO2, Passkeys, SAML2 and OpenID. Based in Florida, he brings 14 years of leadership in security engineering and cloud-scale product development, blending startup agility with rigorous security governance. Previously, he served as CTO at Quadrant Information Security, where he led the development of a multi-threaded log analysis engine and an alert spooling system, and guided cloud migrations for Fortune 500 clients using Suricata-based detection. He also co-founded Softwink, Inc., designing a 24/7 Security Operations Center and crafting custom threat detection signatures. His experience spans hands-on architecture and leading engineering teams across Azure, AWS, GCP, and Digital Ocean, with deep involvement in ISO 27001 and FEDRAMP discussions. Champ combines practical security engineering with entrepreneurial drive to turn complex identity and threat detection challenges into scalable, auditable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
A, A at Lively Technical/Vocational College in Tallahassee, Florida
Github Skills (71)
snort10
rule10
packets10
threads10
spooler10
high-performance9
suricata9
logging9
log-analysis9
passwords8
syslog7
daemon7
dialer7
normalization7
dedicated7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
beave/meer
Mar 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 226 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
quadrantsec/sagan-rules
Jan 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:78 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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