Matthew Maisel
CTO And Co-founder at Sondera
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Maisel is a security-focused technical leader and CTO with over a decade of experience building cybersecurity systems and leading data science teams. He combines hands-on expertise in security operations, machine learning, and incident response from roles at Cylance, Obsidian Security, and Booz Allen with startup leadership as co-founder of Sondera. Based in Philadelphia, he has guided research and product efforts—most recently authoring work on securing and leveraging agents—and advises NetRise on technical strategy. Matthew’s background blends rigorous academic training (M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins) with practical experience translating research into production security tooling, often at the intersection of detection engineering and ML-driven defense.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Security and Risk Analysis Information Sciences and Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Security and Risk Analysis Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University
Github Skills (9)
security6
similarity5
parsing5
command-line-tool4
python4
api3
malware3
golang2
nearest-neighbor-search1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cylance/rogers
Jul 2018 - Jan 2019
Python command-line tool that uses nearest neighbor search methods for malware similarity analysis
Contributions:1 release, 2 commits, 2 PRs in 6 months
command-line-toolpythonnearest-neighbornearestsimilarity
mmaisel/mmaisel.github.io
Dec 2018 - Jun 2019
Personal site and blog
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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