Eric Gay
Interim CISO at Paxos
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEric Gay is an experienced technology leader and interim CISO based in New York with 11 years of documented senior experience and a long history of hands-on engineering and security leadership. He has repeatedly scaled high-traffic web and API platforms, led cross-functional engineering teams, and built resilient AWS-based infrastructure and DevOps pipelines for regulated, transaction-heavy products. As a former CTO and co-founder, he launched customer-facing mobile and web products that processed over $100M in transactions and handled thousands of requests per second during peak events. At Paxos he has combined engineering management and security stewardship, moving between Director of Engineering, Interim CISO, and security leadership roles—demonstrating both tactical incident response and strategic risk management. Comfortable in diverse stacks from Rails and Node to Solidity and Unity, he brings a product-minded approach to security and a track record of hiring and retaining strong teams. An early adopter of cloud-native tooling and automation, he often architects systems that balance rapid iteration with operational rigor.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Ohio University
Github Skills (19)
stacks-blockchain6
layer25
blockstack5
bitcoin5
crypto5
player4
blockchain3
auth3
react3
javascript3
identity3
browser2
storage2
serverless2
macos2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
derby-developers/remote_syslog2-cookbook
Mar 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 year 1 month
cookbookcookbookschef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchef
derby-developers/activeadmin
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 4 months
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