Tom Daniels
CISO at Cursor
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Daniels is an experienced security executive with 11 years in leadership roles across detection & response, identity and access management, infrastructure security, and data governance. He has served as CISO at Plaid and Cursor and held senior security leadership at Square, where he advanced from engineer to Interim CISO and led platform security initiatives. Based in New York, he blends hands-on engineering background with strategic program building to scale security teams and operations for high-growth fintech. Trained in computer science with a cross-cultural foundation in Japanese from Georgetown, he brings a pragmatic, audit-minded approach informed by early consulting and offensive security experience.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Japanese, Computer Science Japanese at Georgetown University
Github Skills (24)
content-security-policy10
headers10
hsts10
referrer-policy10
cookie10
middleware9
metadata9
http-header9
defaults9
rack9
yaml8
ruby8
vulnerability7
security7
basic-authentication7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
thirstscolr/go.macaroons
Dec 2014 - Dec 2020
Package macaroons is a pure Go implementation of macaroons: flexible authorization credentials that support decentralized delegation, attenuation, and verification.
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 years 1 month
golangauthorizationdelegationattenuationpure-go
thirstscolr/go-slackbot
Aug 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
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