Michael Johnson
Advisory Board Member at Safe Security
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Johnson is a strategic cybersecurity and IT executive with 30 years of experience leading cyber, digital transformation, and enterprise technology across government, national labs, and Fortune-scale industry. He has served as CIO and CISO in high-stakes environments—from the White House and DOE to Meta and Capital One—building large programs, privacy offices, and first-of-kind governance frameworks while overseeing multibillion-dollar portfolios and 700+ staff. A seasoned board director and advisor, he chairs risk committees and helps scale cyber risk quantification, third-party risk, and continuous threat exposure management for commercial vendors. Known for combining technical depth (computer engineering and CS degrees) with policy and program acumen, he repeatedly drives transformational change and builds unusually diverse, high-performing leadership teams. Off-hours he remains a hands-on engineer and teacher—describing himself as a programming-language polygot and control-system developer—bringing practical software and systems insight to strategic decisions.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
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Github Skills (7)
objective-c6
xcode6
metal6
ios6
volatile6
swift6
iphone6
Github contributions (5)
MikeJfromVA/Cracking-the-Coding-Interview-in-Java
Mar 2019 - May 2026
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
MikeJfromVA/ARM64-Assembly-iOS
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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