Fen Labalme
Chief Information Security Officer
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolFen Labalme is a seasoned information security executive and CISO at CivicActions with over a decade of experience weaving security, compliance-as-code, and CI/CD into government digital services. He specializes in automating the Authority to Operate (ATO) process using free and open source tools, helping federal and state agencies achieve continuous compliance while preserving usability. His career spans founding privacy-focused projects and identity platforms in the 1990s and 2000s, foreshadowing today’s debates about privacy and social media—his 1981 NewsPeek thesis anticipated modern concerns. Comfortable at the intersection of policy, engineering, and open standards, he has led security programs for clients including the Smithsonian, NSF, DoJ, and HHS. Based in Pittsburgh and CISSP-certified, Fen combines deep technical roots (from C++ and Telescript to infrastructure-as-code) with a long-standing public commitment to privacy-preserving architectures.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science BS CSEE (VI-3) Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, Bachelors of Science BS CSEE (VI-3) Computer Science & Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (132)
security10
procedures10
attestation10
ssh10
ssp10
policies10
gherkin10
supply-chain-security10
nist10
security-testing10
xml10
behavior-driven-development10
scanning10
cybersecurity9
bdd9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
CivicActions/ansible-role-openscap
Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 7 months
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openprivacy/ansible-scap
Jun 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year
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