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 (73)
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cqrs9
monitoring9
rabbitmq9
high-performance9
rust9
stream9
hyper-v9
message-queue9
dm9
virtualbox9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mdfranz/cheetsheetz
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:297 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 9 months
mdfranz/pubs
Aug 2019 - Apr 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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