Robert Wood
Founder And CEO at ICIT (Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Wood is a cybersecurity founder and executive with 12 years of experience building security programs across startups, healthcare, and federal agencies. As Founder & CEO of Sidekick Security and former CISO at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, he blends hands-on offensive security roots with strategic leadership to modernize how organizations manage risk. He co-founded Soft Side of Cyber to humanize security through content and maintains a long-standing fellowship with the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, reflecting his focus on critical infrastructure and policy. Robert’s career moves—from red team lead to senior security executive—show a pragmatic approach to turning assessments into operational change, and his DC base positions him at the intersection of government and industry.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Information Management & Technology Concentration: Information Security, B.S. Information Management & Technology Concentration: Information Security at Syracuse UniversityA.S. Humanities and Social Sciences, A.S. Humanities and Social Sciences at Cayuga Community College
Spanish
Github Skills (12)
binding9
java-api8
json8
jackson8
api7
streaming6
jackson-databind6
java6
streaming-api5
react2
firebase2
kubernetes1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Sidekick-Security/game-day-phnwtr
Dec 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:353 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
holycyberbatman/network_pentesting_toolkit
Oct 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 4 months
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