Summary
Daniel Adinolfi is a Principal Software Engineer and seasoned information security architect with a career spanning federal, enterprise, and higher-education environments since 1999. He currently leads architecture, risk, and Responsible AI assessments at Microsoft, after shaping cloud and compliance programs at Nuance and Akamai and coordinating CVE community efforts at MITRE. Daniel combines deep technical knowledge of cloud, network, and application architectures with hands-on incident response, vulnerability management, and compliance expertise (PCI, FedRAMP), and he publishes practical playbooks to drive security culture change. He mentors junior staff regularly and has a long habit of translating complex security policy into usable guidance for engineers and assessors. Based in Chelmsford, MA, he brings an analytical background in astronomy and mathematics to threat modeling and risk assessment, and鈥攍ess obviously鈥攚rites poetry and plays games through many late-night coffee-fueled threat hunts.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Astronomy and Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts Astronomy and Mathematics at Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences
The Johnson School, Cornell University