Chris Smoak
VP, Information Security - Business Technology
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Smoak is a cybersecurity executive and technologist with 22+ years of hands-on experience and a track record of leading large teams to build offensive and defensive security products for government and enterprise. Currently VP of Information Security - Business Technology at Workday, he previously ran technology and cybersecurity risk functions at Regions Bank and led R&D, red teaming, and product development at Georgia Tech Research Institute. He blends deep engineering skills—MS/BS from Georgia Tech and a background in embedded/real-time systems, malware analysis, and automated vulnerability discovery—with product and go-to-market experience. An entrepreneur at heart, he also runs an indie game studio integrating deep learning into game engines and experiments with VR, reflecting a rare mix of serious security R&D and creative, consumer-facing development.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS Information Security (Computer Science), MS Information Security (Computer Science) at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, French, Japanese
Github Skills (82)
threejs10
reader10
experiences10
daydream10
pdf-generation10
quest10
cannonjs10
aframe10
oculus10
webgl10
oculus-quest10
pdf10
storyboard10
webvr10
game-engine9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cesmoak/SideQuestWebsite
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
The SideQuest landing page, submissions portal and event stream.
Contributions:18 pushes, 14 branches in 1 month
event-streamsubmissionsstreamportal
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