Summary
Kyle Lady is a Senior Intellectual Property Security Engineer with 12 years of experience safeguarding complex products and cloud environments, currently focused on ensuring NVIDIA teams remain secure and export-compliant. He combines deep technical leadership from multi-team roles at Cisco—where he scaled security platforms for entire business groups—with hands-on cloud and data-driven security engineering honed at Duo. Comfortable translating between engineering and executive audiences, he has driven standards, tooling, and risk-reduction initiatives while mentoring teams and shaping cross-functional strategy. His background includes applied research and teaching at the University of Michigan, giving him a strong foundation in distributed systems, security research, and practical cryptography education. Colleagues describe him as equally adept at building scalable internal security infrastructure and demystifying complex technical policy for product teams.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (Incomplete) Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (Incomplete) Computer Science and Engineering at University of Michigan