Ben Hagen
Chief Information Security Officer
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Hagen is a seasoned security executive with 15 years of experience building and operating security programs across high-growth cloud-native companies and national campaigns. Currently Chief Information Security Officer at Axon after leading foundational security, GRC, and platform teams as CISO at Brex, he blends hands-on engineering roots (cloud security, tooling, red team) with strategic risk and compliance leadership. His background includes senior roles at Cruise, Facebook, Netflix and pivotal campaign work defending the 2020 Biden effort, demonstrating an ability to secure both consumer-scale products and high-stakes political operations. Ben pairs technical depth—having written security tools and automated cloud controls—with people leadership that scales cross-functional security practices. Based in San Francisco but with ties to Chicago and international study experience, he describes himself playfully as a “Security Otter,” reflecting an approachable yet tenacious approach to hard problems.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Information Assurance, Master of Science (M.S.), Information Assurance at Iowa State UniversityStudy abroad, Korean, International Studies, Study abroad, Korean, International Studies at Yonsei UniversityStudy abroad, International/Global Studies, Study abroad, International/Global Studies at 山梨県立女子短期大学
Japanese, Korean, Chinese, English
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Github Skills (13)
mobile6
css6
imagemap6
javascript6
cloudwatch4
aws-cloudwatch3
lambda3
aws3
security2
serverless-framework2
serverless2
monitoring2
aws-lambda2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
benhagen/gitlamb
Oct 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 8 months
deploymentserverlessaws-lambdaawsserverless-framework
benhagen/dossier
Nov 2012 - Mar 2013
Contributions:12 commits in 3 months
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