Sacha Faust
Operator Advisor
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarSacha Faust is an experienced security and engineering leader with 11 years in software and over two decades of hands-on security practice, now based in Seattle and advising operators and startups. He has led security organizations at high-scale companies including Lyft, Amazon, Microsoft, and Grammarly, and currently drives AI-first engineering and runtime trust infrastructure as Principal Engineer at Superhuman while advising at Whiterabbit. His work spans offensive and defensive security, product and platform security, and automation—building reproducible red-team playbooks, threat intelligence, and self-healing remediation pipelines. Sacha also contributes to open-source infrastructure, notably backend and DevOps enhancements for the CNCF cartography project integrating AWS VPC peering and Okta. He’s known for translating adversarial thinking into practical, scalable controls that let AI agents and production systems operate safely. Colleagues describe him as a builder who blends deep technical craftsmanship with strategic leadership across security, cloud, and AI-enabled engineering.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
English, French
Github Skills (10)
neo4j10
okta-api10
aws10
python10
devops9
aac9
infrastructure-as-code9
cicd8
networking8
git6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cartography-cncf/cartography
Apr 2019 - Oct 2022
Cartography is a Python tool that consolidates infrastructure assets and the relationships between them in an intuitive graph view powered by a Neo4j database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 64 commits, 18 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Sacha primarily contributed to the backend infrastructure of the project, specifically related to AWS VPC peering and Okta integration. Their work included implementing features for multi-region VPC support, fixing bugs, and modifying the codebase to interact with Okta's API. They also demonstrated involvement in DevOps tasks by updating the codebase to work with the cloud provider and modifying the configuration, as well as fixing OS compatibility.
neo4j-databasegcppythonathenalyft
1nf1del/cartography
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Cartography is a Python tool that consolidates infrastructure assets and the relationships between them in an intuitive graph view powered by a Neo4j database.
Contributions:57 commits in 6 days
neo4j-databasepythoninfrastructurecartographyintuitive
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