Jay Van Velzen is a strategic cloud security leader with 11 years of experience driving multicloud transformation and security operations at SAP, currently advising the CSO as a member of the Global Security Leadership Team. He built and scaled SecDevOps teams across continents, led multicloud security initiatives spanning AWS, Azure, GCP and China regions, and translated complex cloud-native risks into executive-ready strategy and budgets. Known for combining hands-on incident response and automation with organizational change, he has guided compliance and certification efforts including SOC2, PCI-DSS, GDPR and NIST frameworks. Based in Seacliff, California, he brings a rare blend of historical scholarship and technical leadership—his academic background in history informs a strategic, context-aware approach to cyber risk and policy.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
doctorandus, History, minor in Indian Languages and Culture, doctorandus, History, minor in Indian Languages and Culture at University of Groningen
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