Summary
Matt Richard is a seasoned cyber security and threat intelligence engineer with 13 years of experience across industry leaders including OpenAI, AWS, Facebook, and Microsoft. He has progressed from hands-on incident response and rapid-response team leadership to principal and technical staff roles, blending deep investigative skills with strategic threat program development. Matt has founded a startup and led teams at scale, demonstrating both entrepreneurial initiative and large-org delivery against advanced adversaries. His background spans government-contractor and commercial environments, giving him a rare perspective on mission-driven security, cloud-scale threat intel, and engineering management. Known for moving between technical depth and cross-functional influence, he’s as comfortable authoring detection strategies as he is shaping product-sec priorities. Based in the United States, he brings practical operational experience informed by work at MITRE, Raytheon, and major cloud and social platforms.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer