Summary
Dominique Pizzie is a Security Engineering Manager with 11+ years of hands-on and leadership experience across SOC operations, threat hunting, DevSecOps, and network/security architecture for higher education, government, Fortune 500, healthcare, financial services, and SaaS. She has rebuilt and scaled SOCs, automated Tier 1 triage, and launched monitoring and threat intelligence capabilities that materially improved detection and incident response metrics. At Qualtrics she drove team growth, OKR-driven alignment, and built a monitoring tool that improved platform abuse detection by over 80%, and now leads security engineering at QGenda. Comfortable bridging technical detail and executive strategy, she routinely presents to C-level stakeholders and embeds security ownership into engineering teams. Outside of work she experiments in a homelab and explores new vulnerabilities and FOSS tools, bringing a practitioner’s curiosity to strategic security decisions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Louisiana at Lafayette