TJ Banasik is a senior product leader specializing in cloud, AI, and sovereign security with more than two decades of cross-domain experience spanning military service, large enterprise security operations, and cloud product management. Currently leading Google Distributed Cloud strategy and the GDC Sandbox for air-gapped Generative AI, he authored GDC’s Zero Trust strategy and drives public influence to accelerate adoption in high-assurance environments. Previously at Microsoft he helped elevate Sentinel into a Gartner-recognized SIEM and has hands-on engineering chops—authoring substantial code across products and contributing technical leadership to billion-dollar RFP wins. TJ combines dual graduate degrees in security and cyber intelligence with operational experience running global security teams, making him adept at translating stringent sovereignty requirements into scalable cloud products. Notably, he blends practitioner-level technical depth with product vision to deploy AI capabilities into air-gapped and appliance deployments that meet the most demanding compliance constraints.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts Intelligence Concentrating Cyber, Master of Arts Intelligence Concentrating Cyber at American Military University
Master of Science Security Engineering, Master of Science Security Engineering at SANS Technology Institute
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Radford University
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.
Request Free Trial
TJ Banasik - Senior Product Manager, Google Distributed Cloud