Eddie Garcia
Chief Information Security Officer
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolEddie Garcia is a seasoned CISO and technology executive with 15+ years leading security, IT and engineering functions through startup growth, private equity transactions, and public company IPOs. He has a proven track record scaling security programs from Series A to NYSE readiness—building SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR frameworks that enabled enterprise sales and M&A diligence. Eddie blends deep hands-on architecture (including patents in VM encryption and key management) with multi-functional leadership across SRE, cloud infrastructure, data engineering and business applications. He has repeatedly transitioned between VP Engineering, CISO and CIO roles to meet organizational priorities and drive cost-optimized, secure multi-cloud transformations. Recently he’s focused on pragmatic AI security and governance—operationalizing vendor management and data controls to accelerate safe AI adoption across business functions. Based in Austin, Eddie also advises startups and nonprofits as a virtual CISO and board-level security consultant, bringing rare expertise in both product security and enterprise trust-building.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer Computer Systems, Engineer Computer Systems at Tecnológico de Monterrey
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
datastax6
datastax-enterprise6
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data-science2
pandas2
machine-learning2
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Github contributions (4)
cloudera-cares-austin/zika-hackathon
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 8 PRs, 21 pushes in 26 days
pythonsciencedata-sciencemachine-learningut-austin
ClouderaCaresAustin/Zika-Hackathon
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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