Brandon Sterne
Chief Information Security Officer
Danville, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorBrandon Sterne is a seasoned security executive with 14 years of experience building and scaling enterprise security programs across cloud services and software platforms. Based in Danville, California, as Chief Information Security Officer at Basis Theory, he leads strategy and execution to align security with business and customer needs, focusing on risk management and practical controls. He previously built and led product security at Snowflake, Splunk, and Workday, driving multi-team security services, secure SDLC adoption, and cloud security maturity, including FedRAMP High authorization and a federated identity model to reduce operational risk. Notably, at Workday he created the company’s first Application Security program, grew the team from 5 to 60, and earned a US patent for a Brute Force Attack Prevention System, underscoring his relentless focus on scalable, defensible systems. A principled communicator and talent developer, he emphasizes measurable security metrics, threat modeling, and continuous security monitoring to empower engineering teams while protecting customers.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (87)
security10
django9
owasp9
ids9
suricata9
devsecops9
vulnerability-management9
python9
security-automation9
automation9
ips9
network-monitoring9
vulnerability9
analytics9
intrusion-detection8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dynmed/griffin
Feb 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:26 pushes in 5 years 4 months
mozilla-bteam/secbugstats
Dec 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:5 commits in 8 days
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