Shadrock Roberts
Director Analyst Cybersecurity Privacy Program Management at Gartner
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolShadrock Roberts is a seasoned privacy and cybersecurity leader with 10+ years designing and operationalizing global data protection programs across nonprofit, government, and tech sectors. As Director Analyst at Gartner (2025–present), he guides strategy and program management for cybersecurity and privacy initiatives, translating complex regulatory requirements into actionable controls. Previously at Mercy Corps, he led global data protection and ethical AI programs, automating privacy workflows to audit 50+ systems and handling 90 DSARs annually, while cutting operating costs by $36k a year. His career spans USAID, Ushahidi, and academia, where he built privacy-by-design, data governance policies, and scalable training across multiple countries. A GIS and geography scholar by training (PhD from UGA), he founded and directed data-privacy programs that bridged engineering, policy, and training, including launching USAID’s Remote Sensing Program valued at $1.5M and pioneering crowdsourced data governance. Based in Denver, he brings a rare blend of policy acumen, hands-on automation, and cross-sector leadership to protect user trust while enabling responsible innovation.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Georgia
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
api-platform10
dataprotection10
ushahidi10
privacy-protection10
cybersecurity9
privacy9
api9
gdpr9
security8
data-protection8
python7
chrome6
toggl6
chrome-extension6
firefox-addon6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Shadrock/RNI-Activity-Map
Oct 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 61 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
looksandboxconvertingushahidigeojson
mercycorps/DPP-guides
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
Unbranded content for Mercy Corps' Data Protection & Privacy Guides. For more info see https://www.mercycorps.org/research-resources/data-protection-privacy-guides
Contributions:147 commits, 12 PRs, 42 pushes in 7 months
data-protectionhumanitarianprivacysecuritymore-info
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