David Waltermire
Senior Director, AI And Platform Engineering
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
Summary
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SeniorDavid Waltermire is a senior technology leader and engineer with nearly three decades of experience building secure, standards-driven platforms across government, nonprofits, and commercial services. Currently serving as CTO of the CVE Foundation and Senior Director of AI and Platform Engineering at RegScale, he blends hands-on engineering with executive strategy to drive AI-powered compliance, automation, and OSCAL-based standards adoption. He led a 21-person FedRAMP engineering organization that significantly cut authorization timelines and authored OSCAL work adopted by Google, AWS, and major GRC vendors—a project that earned a U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal. A long-time contributor to internet standards and open-source security tooling, he co-chaired IETF working groups producing RFCs used globally in mobile security and VPNs and contributed meaningful enhancements to the NIST OSCAL GitHub project. David is known for building high-performance engineering cultures, mentoring leaders, and translating technical depth into measurable business outcomes at the intersection of security, automation, and AI governance. Based in Gaithersburg, MD, he brings a rare mix of technical credibility and policy-savvy leadership that accelerates auditable, scalable compliance.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (16)
security10
xml10
json10
schema10
xslt10
documentation10
yaml9
catalog9
public-profile9
user-profile9
build-tools8
build-system8
release-management8
front-end-development6
html5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
usnistgov/OSCAL
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & Security Engineer
Full-stack Developer & Security EngineerContributions:1 release, 351 reviews, 783 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:David primarily worked on enhancing and maintaining the OSCAL project, focusing on XML and JSON schema improvements, conversion tools, and model documentation. The user added support for the catalog and profile model, added features like support for parameter insertion and other enhancements, and refactored existing code for improved performance. The user also contributed to website content with a focus on documentation, and improved site build/deployment pipelines.
oscalnistauthorizationsecurity-controlssecurity
metaschema-framework/liboscal-java
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:8 releases, 73 reviews, 100 PRs in 8 months
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