Chris Stevens
VP Product Security at Optimum
Grapevine, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Stevens is a veteran technology and security executive with 25 years of engineering and cybersecurity leadership across electric vehicle manufacturing, aviation, travel tech, and defense. As a former CTO/CISO and current VP of Product Security, he has built global, cloud-native platforms, mature DevSecOps practices, and product-security programs that span ISO27001, NIST, PCI-DSS, and automotive standards like ISO 21434. He’s proven at scaling distributed systems and high-performing, remote teams while launching new products and developer ecosystems—growing partner programs to thousands worldwide. Equally comfortable in board-level risk discussions and hands-on architecture, Chris has led initiatives from vehicle OTA security and SOC operations to cloud-native SRE and HashiCorp-based platform transitions. A pilot and serial founder/advisor, he blends operational rigor with entrepreneurial curiosity and a background in real-time aerospace simulation that informs his systems-thinking approach.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Management of Technology, Master of Science Management of Technology at The University of Texas at ArlingtonBachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (200)
python10
newman10
integrations10
consul10
currency-converter10
rest-api10
ssh10
hashicorp10
validation10
secrets10
packer10
scale10
service-discovery10
vault10
currency10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
stevenscg/statsd-php
Oct 2012 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years
daemonstatisticsstatsudp
stevenscg/ansible-role-levant
Feb 2018 - Jan 2020
Ansible role that installs and configures Levant - An open source templating and deployment tool for HashiCorp Nomad jobs
Contributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 11 months
hashicorp-nomadnomad-jobsdeploymenttemplatingansible
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