Free Wortley
Head Of Security Architecture at Scale AI
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFree Wortley is a security-focused engineering leader with 12 years of experience building secure systems at scale, currently shaping security architecture for AI at Scale AI. He founded and led LunaSec (YC S19), raising VC funding and shipping open-source tooling that helps detect critical vulnerabilities like Log4Shell—a term he coined in a viral blog post. His background spans hands-on product security roles at Figma, Uber, and Snap, plus deep engineering experience building backend SDKs and deployment pipelines in TypeScript. He blends founder-level product instincts with programmatic security practices, from AppSec and network controls to data and AI security for Snowflake-scale systems. Free also brings a long-standing indie-dev pedigree—shipping MMORPG infrastructure and custom engines—which informs his pragmatic, performance-minded approach to architecture. Based in Seattle, he pairs hacker curiosity with proven startup execution to turn security research into operational safeguards.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Alumni Startups, Alumni Startups at Y CombinatorComputer Science, Computer Science at Kauai Community College
English
Github Skills (16)
typescript10
typescripts10
back-end-development10
typescript-types10
apidoc9
docker8
dockers8
aws8
api-design7
security7
apim7
json7
api7
it-security6
javascript6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lunasec-io/lunasec
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
LunaSec - Dependency Security Scanner that automatically notifies you about vulnerabilities like Log4Shell or node-ipc in your Pull Requests and Builds. Protect yourself in 30 seconds with the LunaTrace GitHub App: https://github.com/marketplace/lunatrace-by-lunasec/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:150 reviews, 1521 commits, 267 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Free's commits focused on adding functionality to the secure frame SDK and implementing a back-end for a service. They added a secure frame SDK and began shifting the architecture to the current version. The user worked with TypeScript for the SDK and implemented and debugged the framework. They also added the ability to build and deploy the project as part of a larger system.
protecttokenization30-secondscompliancevulnerability-scanners
freeqaz/Sudoku.Web
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:47 commits in 11 days
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