Derek C
Head Of Security at Art into Science: A Conference for Defense (ACoD)
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek C is a seasoned security leader with over two decades of experience architecting large-scale, production-ready security systems and currently serves as Head of Security at Together AI. He’s built default-at-scale security solutions—most notably designing full memory encryption for Cloudflare’s next-gen platform, a firmware-signing root of trust, and a distributed key management service—and holds multiple patents in key management and blockchain. Derek moves fluidly between silicon, firmware, cloud and crypto layers, advising startups and vendors (Axiado, Invary) while mentoring through teaching and conference leadership (ACoD). Based in Austin, he blends hands-on engineering pedigree from roles at Cloudflare, eBay and Atlassian with CISO-level strategy, and quietly shares deep technical writing and crypto work via his blogs and GitHub handle therandomsecurityguy.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Cybersecurity, M.Sc Cybersecurity at Purdue UniversityB.Sc Organizational Leadership, B.Sc Organizational Leadership at East Texas A&M University
Spanish
Github Skills (53)
scanner10
nse9
vulnerability9
nmap9
secrets9
amazon-web-services9
vault9
amazon9
vulnerability-scanners8
encryption8
aws8
initramfs8
security8
busybox8
security-scanner8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
therandomsecurityguy/randomsecurity.dev
Apr 2021 - Feb 2025
Code for randomsecurity.dev
Contributions:1 PR, 62 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
pythonmachine-learningdev
therandomsecurityguy/vault
Feb 2016 - Apr 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
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