Summary
Matthew Venne is a pragmatic CTO and cloud architect with 8 years of hands-on experience designing secure, compliant AWS solutions for government and enterprise customers. At stackArmor he progressed from cloud engineer and solutions architect to Managing Director and now Chief Technology Officer, driving FedRAMP/NIST-aligned architectures, zero-trust networking, and DevSecOps pipelines while still coding to keep designs practical. He blends deep identity and boundary protection expertise (SSO, MFA, Palo Alto NGFW, Zscaler) with infrastructure-as-code and serverless patterns to deliver auditable, production-ready systems. A communicator and mentor, he writes white papers, speaks to user groups, and leads teams to translate C‑suite risk priorities into implemented controls. Based in the DC–Baltimore area, he also contributes to the MLSecOps community, signaling a current interest in securing ML lifecycles. Offbeat GitHub humor aside, he pairs a physics BS with a relentless focus on operational realism and measurable security outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at JMU
TC Williams High School
English, French