Summary
Richard Jankowski is a Chief Information Security Officer with 8+ years leading enterprise security programs and over two decades of hands-on technical experience across incident response, digital forensics, and secure cloud adoption. He founded Uplift Security to serve as virtual CISO for growth companies, building automated asset/vulnerability management and third‑party risk platforms that cut review costs by 65% and keep security visibility continuously current. Previously he created Beachbody’s global security function, enabling large-scale cloud services and reducing vulnerabilities by 95%, and has delivered high-impact analytics and tooling for customers like Bank of America at Guidance Software. Equally comfortable in board-level strategy and low-level engineering, Richard blends developer skills (Angular/Vue/React experience noted on GitHub) with deep forensic and automation expertise to make security both practical and scalable. Based in Livingston, Texas, he thrives on turning complex risk into auditable, business-aligned controls and inventive automation.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Security and Forensics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Security and Forensics at Rochester Institute of Technology
English