Rob Vance
Principal Security Architect at Sleep Number Corporation
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Vance is a Principal Security Architect with 11 years of experience turning fragmented multi-cloud and SaaS estates into unified, measurable, and business-accelerating security platforms. He blends deep architecture skills, hands-on engineering, and executive influence—having led transformations at Sleep Number, Best Buy, and Target—by building Zero Trust, Cloudflare-powered ecosystems and automation that halve incidents and audit fatigue. At Sleep Number he pioneered a just-in-time AI development model and compliant Azure OpenAI framework that codified architecture and compliance guardrails into self-governing code, earning the Erickson Award. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he has reverse-engineered payment-device telemetry into deterministic Splunk alerts and removed decade-long manual failures through targeted automation. Rob’s approach treats risk as an opportunity: he designs measurable controls and reusable capabilities that let innovation outpace risk.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Maryland
Github Skills (27)
javascript10
typescript10
user-interface10
declarative10
frontend10
react10
exploit9
kali-linux9
cve8
web-application-security7
security7
owasp7
pentest7
pentesting7
cybersecurity6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
sealmindset/PSTools
Sep 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:79 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
sealmindset/workarea
Nov 2021 - Nov 2024
Workarea is an enterprise-grade Ruby on Rails commerce platform
Contributions:17 PRs, 39 pushes, 39 branches in 3 years
ruby-on-railscommerce-platformworkareaecommercecommerce
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