David Zendzian
VMware Tanzu Global Field CISO - Security Champion at Broadcom
Bluffton, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Zendzian is a seasoned cybersecurity leader and Global Field CISO for VMware Tanzu with over a decade of focused experience translating complex compliance and security needs into product and customer-facing solutions. He blends hands-on infrastructure and application security expertise—from architecting multi-region AWS and PCI Level 1 environments to running vendor assessments and penetration programs—with executive-level engagement across CSOs, CISOs, and chief architects. A proven builder, he has led global Field CISO teams, driven security integration for product roadmaps, and trained enterprise security teams on cloud-native practices and tooling. His background spans startups to Fortune 50s, including founding and operating hosting and ISP businesses, which gives him rare operational empathy for both engineering and business constraints. Known for pragmatic strategic planning and strong interpersonal skills, he routinely turns customer compliance asks into actionable feature requests and audit-ready documentation. Based in Bluffton, SC, he pairs deep technical fluency in PCI/HIPAA/SOX domains with a knack for coaching organizations to adopt secure development lifecycles.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at College of CharlestonJames Island
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (195)
wifi10
esp3210
rgb10
rtl-sdr10
dac10
vulnerability10
decode10
esp826610
signal-processing9
misconfiguration9
golang9
devsecops9
mls9
openshot9
security9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dmz006/tanzu-om-template-diff
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
dmz006/acts_as_shopping_cart
Oct 2020 - May 2023
Simple Shopping Cart implementation
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 7 months
shoppingecommerceshopping-cartcart
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