Matt Franz
AI Security Lead at Alyssum Global Services
Lutherville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Franz is an AI Security Lead with 15 years of deep experience designing and operating cloud-native security programs across startups and enterprise organizations. He combines hands-on engineering—Terraform, Python, Ansible, CNAPP/CSPM/XDR—with product and go-to-market skills, having managed vendors, proposals, and sales support in fast-moving environments. His work spans incident response, SecOps modernization, FedRAMP bootstrapping, and running data platforms for MDR and IR use cases, with recent focus on managed Google SecOps and AI-enabled security capabilities. A proven builder, he founded cloud operations teams and rebuilt InfraSec organizations through mergers and post-acquisition integrations. Based in Lutherville, MD, he bridges tactical automation and strategic security strategy while still shipping code and tooling (some repos live in his Gitlab). Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, cross-functional leadership that turns security engineering into repeatable products.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (90)
stream-processing10
monitoring10
high-performance10
telemetry10
datadog10
rust-lang9
rabbitmq9
data-transformation9
etl9
cloud-native9
observability9
agent9
observability-data9
cqrs8
hyper-v8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mdfranz/pubs
Aug 2019 - May 2026
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
mdfranz/windows-containers
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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