Summary
Cara Marie is a seasoned security executive with 12 years of hands-on offensive and defensive experience, currently serving as VP of Security at Feeld after leading infrastructure and incident response transformations at Recurve. She has built and scaled offensive security programs at Datadog and Opendoor, spearheading purple team operations, IR overhauls, and multi-tenant infrastructure migrations that improved resilience and efficiency. Cara blends technical depth in red-team methodologies with cross-functional leadership across Legal, GRC, Trust & Safety and IT, making security a business enabler rather than a bottleneck. Trained in both software engineering (Hackbright) and design/literature, she brings a rare combination of technical rigor and communication finesse that helps translate complex risk into actionable programs.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
CS Intensive, CS Intensive at Hackbright Academy
Graphic Design Printmaking, Graphic Design Printmaking at Parsons School of Design
Bachelor of Arts (BA) English Language and Literature General, Bachelor of Arts (BA) English Language and Literature General at Concordia University-Irvine