Brandon Sterne
AI Cybersecurity Consultant at Valley Oak Technology
Danville, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Sterne is a seasoned security leader and current Chief Information Security Officer with 15 years of experience building and scaling security programs across high-growth cloud and product organizations. He combines hands-on expertise in secure development lifecycle, security automation, penetration testing, and cloud runtime protection with a pragmatic, risk-focused approach that aligns security investments to business and customer needs. Brandon has repeatedly grown and transformed teams—moving organizations to developer-driven security models, achieving FedRAMP High authorization at Snowflake, and scaling Workday’s security engineering org from a handful to nearly 60 engineers. He’s known for creating measurable security programs: establishing vulnerability SLAs, security risk scoring, and dashboards that cut risk and operational interrupts while enabling rapid product delivery. A clear communicator and talent builder who’s comfortable onstage or in the trenches, he also holds a patent for a brute-force attack prevention system, reflecting a blend of inventive thinking and practical engineering. Based in Danville, CA, he focuses on delivering scalable, auditable security controls that let engineering teams move fast and safely.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Systems, BS Information Systems at University of California, Riverside
Github Skills (74)
django9
owasp9
devsecops9
vulnerability-management9
security9
python9
security-automation9
automation9
ids8
cybersecurity8
suricata8
network-monitoring8
ips8
threat-hunting8
analytics8
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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