Brian Ray
Distinguished Engineer - Artificial Intelligence at Netskope
Annapolis, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Ray is a seasoned AI and security technology leader currently driving architectural excellence as a Distinguished Engineer for Artificial Intelligence at Netskope. He brings 14 years of experience spanning startups and giant tech, with a track record in agentic AI, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Generative AI, and secure distributed systems. Before Netskope, he led security-operations AI initiatives at Google as Sr Staff Engineer and later as Engineering Lead, pioneering agentic AI, MCP, and open-source Security AI MCP server and the SecOps Wrapper SDK. His background also includes founding a VC-backed IoT startup with a successful exit, VP of Engineering at Mandiant through its Google acquisition, and DoD-focused secure communications leadership, underscoring his blend of entrepreneurship, defense-grade security, and scale. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the US Naval Academy and an MA from Oxford, and has deep experience with cloud-native platforms (AWS EKS/Fargate) and cross-functional collaboration. Based in Annapolis, MD, he consistently turns ambitious AI security concepts into scalable, production-ready solutions that reshape automated threat detection and response.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at United States Naval Academy
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (11)
queues10
checker10
datalayer10
optimization9
optimizer9
javascript9
typechecking8
plovr4
closure3
async3
nodejs3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
google/data-layer-helper
Jul 2013 - Feb 2020
Contributions:1 release, 33 commits, 2 PRs in 6 years 8 months
javascript-libraryqueuesjavascriptdatalayermessage
google/closure-compiler
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
A JavaScript checker and optimizer.
Contributions:2 issues in 6 months
checkerjavascriptoptimizationtypecheckingoptimizer
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