Ryan Kovar
Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Kovar is a cybersecurity executive with 24 years of experience building and scaling security programs across military, government, financial services, and high-growth tech. He founded and grew Splunk SURGe from zero budget into an award-winning global research organization that influenced over $1B in revenue, increased media visibility dramatically, and published patents and a book. At JPMorgan Chase he now leads product security modernization for Asset & Wealth Management, focusing on GenAI risk governance, SaaS pipeline security, and global incident response while challenging enterprise inertia. A former DARPA senior engineer and Navy IT2, he combines nation-state threat hunting and operational leadership with a talent for translating technical intelligence into board-level business impact. Notably, he built one of the world’s largest blue-team CTFs and drove tangible diversity hiring outcomes, demonstrating an ability to scale programs that matter beyond pure engineering.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Information Technology Security, Master of Science (MSc), Information Technology Security at University of Westminster
Github Skills (7)
sunburst6
shadow5
utility4
naming-conventions4
js3
unicorns3
dns1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rkovar/splunk-hunting-helpers
May 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 4 years 10 months
splunk/ta-covidiocs
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
A TA to pull IOCS about COVID attacks from various open source locations
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 2 months
iocslocationsattacks
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