Rafe Hart is a seasoned security architect and people leader with 11+ years shaping secure, compliant SaaS and payment platforms across Australia, the US, UK and EU. As Vice President Security at StarRez and former Head of Cyber Security at a Mastercard-focused fintech, he blends hands-on application and cloud security with program-level risk, privacy and compliance (SOC 2, PCI, GDPR) expertise. He has led cross-functional engineering teams of 40+ in Azure, Kubernetes and mixed-cloud environments to deliver scalable, auditable services. Comfortable switching between coding, architecture and executive strategy, he excels at standing up security programs for rapidly growing products. Based in Melbourne, he’s also a practical privacy advocate and self-described hacker who brings a pragmatic, caffeine-fueled curiosity to solving thorny security problems.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MBA (Executive), MBA (Executive) at RMIT University
Contributions:37 PRs, 54 pushes, 31 branches in 5 years 9 months
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Rafe Hart - Vice President Security at StarRez, Inc.