Summary
Shannon Haworth is an Information Security Officer and Chief Privacy Officer with 11 years of focused experience and a multi-decade engineering background delivering secure, scalable software across healthcare, transportation, and enterprise clients. He combines hands-on systems integration and software engineering expertise—spanning RDBMS/NoSQL, REST APIs, Linux/UNIX, CI/CD, and identity management—with strategic risk reduction and privacy leadership. Shannon has led security hardening to meet NIST/HIPAA/DoD standards, automated vulnerability scanning and remediation, and served as a senior technical advisor reporting directly to CTOs on incident root cause and operational improvements. He has built and operated cloud-native, containerized deployments and CI/CD pipelines at scale, and driven DevOps and process maturity initiatives that reduced technical debt and operational costs. Comfortable both mentoring teams and writing code in Java, Go, C and shell, he brings the pragmatism of a longtime practitioner who once discovered a multi-million-dollar security exposure at a major financial firm. Based in Norfolk, VA, he pairs product lifecycle fluency with a coder’s continual curiosity.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
English