Liana Tomescu
Part Time Faculty Member PAT Business School
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolLiana Tomescu is a cybersecurity leader and founder with 11 years of experience building secure cloud and AI systems from startups to Microsoft. She currently runs SonnyLabs.ai, a real-time platform focused on protecting agentic AI apps and MCP servers, and teaches part-time on cybersecurity risk and compliance at PAT Business School. Previously she launched Defender for DevOps and Defender for APIs at Microsoft, helping customers meet regulatory regimes like ISO 27001, SOC 2 and HIPAA while driving product and documentation improvements. Her background blends hands-on engineering and product management across Azure reliability, security automation, and developer tooling, with a knack for turning customer feedback into shipped features. She also hosts the AI Hacks with Liana podcast and has academic research experience bringing compliance into AI deployments, reflecting a rare mix of practitioner, educator and communicator. Based in Dublin, she combines enterprise-scale security know-how with startup agility and community-building experience from founding the TES incubator and volunteering in tech inclusion initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Leaving Certificate Secondary Education (High School), Leaving Certificate Secondary Education (High School) at St. Joseph's College LucanBA (Mod) Computer Science and Business, BA (Mod) Computer Science and Business at Trinity College DublinMaster's Degree Cybersecurity, Master's Degree Cybersecurity at University College Dublin
English, Romanian, French, Irish
Github Skills (28)
microsoft10
microsoft-azure10
powershell10
azure10
architecture9
docker8
documentation8
terraform-provider7
terraform7
azure-resource-manager7
database7
resource-manager7
csharp6
tensorflow6
dotnet-core6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
LianaT/travel_diary
Mar 2017 - Jul 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 4 months
LianaT/Azure-Security-Center
Sep 2021 - Mar 2023
Welcome to the Azure Security Center community repository
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 5 months
centersecurityazureazure-security-centerazure-security
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