Chris Mcculloh
Senior Manager, Security Architecture at Freelance
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Mcculloh is a senior security architecture leader with 15+ years of hands-on experience and a 20+ year track record securing Fortune 500s, government agencies, healthcare systems and startups. Currently leading Security Architecture at Northwell Health, he designs cloud/hybrid reference architectures, drives threat modeling and advises executives on emerging risks while partnering on secure GCP adoption. Equally comfortable in the codebase, he contributes to open source Python tooling (improving datetime serialization in schematics/dictshield) and has built AI agents for automated penetration testing with strong real-world success. A former surgeon and medical researcher turned security strategist, he uniquely blends clinical domain knowledge with deep technical and operational security expertise. He’s also a proven vCISO and founder who has protected large-scale payroll and media systems with zero breaches and served as an expert witness for the US DOJ.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Biology, Biology at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at New York UniversityMD, Medicine, MD, Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Github Skills (14)
data-structures10
type-system10
deserialization10
datetime10
typescript10
typesc10
data-serialization10
datetimes10
validation10
schema10
python10
validations10
data-structure10
serialization10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
schematics/schematics
Jul 2011 - Aug 2011
Python Data Structures for Humans™.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 14 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the `dictshield` library, a Python data structure validation tool. Their contributions include implementing ISO8601 datetime serialization/deserialization, addressing merge conflicts and refactoring code related to datetime and list fields. They also provided an example of how to use embedded documents. The user's work directly contributed to improving data type handling and ensuring correct data serialization for the library.
pythondatastructuresvalidationdeserializationpython-data-structures
st0w/Roadie
Feb 2011 - Aug 2011
Contributions:27 commits in 5 months
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