Summary
Cameron W is a product security leader with nine years of hands-on experience building AppSec and security engineering programs that scale across global teams and cloud-native pipelines. As Director of Application Security & Security Engineering, he designs developer-friendly automated guardrails, early design signals, and risk metrics that reduced vulnerabilities by 90% on critical products while preserving release velocity. He co-leads the OWASP Secure Pipeline Verification Standard and co-hosts the Coffee, Chaos & ProdSec podcast, blending practitioner insight with community education on topics like supply-chain integrity and AI-safe development. Cameron advises startups and contributes to practitioner networks on AI security, non-human identity governance, and secure SDLC practices, driving practical policy and tooling that meet compliance needs. Based in Austin, he’s known for treating security as good design—embedding it in code and pipelines rather than slowing engineering—and for pragmatic use of AI to shorten feedback loops and speed remediation.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Cyber Security Operations and Leadership Cyber Security, Master of Science in Cyber Security Operations and Leadership Cyber Security at University of San Diego
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at California State University, Fullerton
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