Ray Taft
Chief Information Security Officer
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRay Taft is a seasoned security and technology executive with nine years in senior InfoSec leadership and a 25+ year history building and scaling infrastructure and platforms. As Chief Information Security Officer at Metadata and former CISO consultant, he has driven a security-first culture that cut application vulnerabilities 95%, enabled a 90% reduction in sales cycles via AI-driven trust centers, and achieved broad compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001/27701, PCI-DSS, NIST, GDPR, CCPA). He previously led global infrastructure and platform organizations at Gap and Expedia, managing teams of hundreds and multi-hundred-million dollar budgets while resolving major revenue-impacting incidents. An operator-turned-founder, he co-founded an early IaaS company that was acquired and has guided security for large, regulated projects including a $1.1B hospital initiative. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ray blends hands-on technical depth with business-aligned governance, often translating complex compliance requirements into tangible market and revenue outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Biology , Biology at Cañada College
Github Skills (10)
reconnect2
websocket1
browser1
react-native1
websocket-client1
nodejs1
command-line-interface1
react1
liquidcore1
cli1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
KG204/R2TouchAndroid
Aug 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 11 months
KG204/ff_client
Jan 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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