Derek Smith
CEO at Mimic
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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SeniorDerek Smith is a four-time founder and CEO based in the San Francisco Bay Area who builds and scales technology companies focused on cybersecurity, information assurance, host-based security, and computer-aided design. Over more than three decades he has founded and led startups that produced market-leading products (including early DLP and bot-defense solutions) and successfully exited to industry giants like Raytheon, Oracle, Tata, and F5. At Shape Security he led the company that protected major banks, airlines, retailers and government agencies from automated attacks before its acquisition by F5, and he went on to run security at F5 prior to founding Mimic. Technically hands-on with 15+ years of programming across Java, C#, C++, PHP, SQL and web stacks, he pairs deep engineering fluency with executive-level strategy. He also brings experience advising national cyber policy from a Department of Defense role, an uncommon mix of startup grit and government-grade security perspective. Known for turning complex, mission-critical security requirements into deployable products, he thrives at the intersection of product, research and operations.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (32)
titan10
quest10
stash10
bank10
minecraft9
forge9
vault8
youtube8
java7
ffmpeg7
atlantis7
cli7
obfuscator5
respec5
youtube-dl5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OphiteCorp/vhackos-botnet
May 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:7 releases, 83 commits, 38 pushes in 4 months
mimic2300/TQVaultAE
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
Extra bank space for Titan Quest Anniversary Edition
Contributions:2 pushes in 21 days
questtitantitan-questanniversarybank
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