Contact
email: damien@absurd.engineering
signal: damien.42
linkedin: linkedin.com/in/dlwilson/
github: github.com/damien
Overview
I am a technical security generalist with a focus on cloud infrastructure and regulatory compliance. I help organizations secure their data, prepare for regulatory scrutiny, and improve their security practices. I interested in roles as staff security engineer at large organizations interested in safely deploying products leveraging AI and machine learning.
Experience
| Company | Title | Dates of employment |
|---|---|---|
| Snowflake | Senior Security Engineer | July 2023 to present |
| Mindglob, LLC | Owner / Operator | May 2018 to present |
| Shopify | Staff Security Engineer | May 2022 to May 2023 |
| Human Interest | Senior Security Engineer | August 2021 to May 2022 |
| Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | Senior Software Engineer, Security Infrastructure | September 2020 toJuly 2021 |
| Funding Circle | Security Engineer | January 2019 to September 2020 |
| Funding Circle | Senior Software Engineer | May 2015 to January 2019 |
Accomplishments
Security Infrastructure and Compliance
- Snowflake: Led Product Security engineering efforts to support several key audits, including FedRAMP Moderate and FedRAMP High authorizations.
- Shopify: Developed security observability systems, handling large-scale infrastructure and regulatory compliance mapping.
- Human Interest: Built and integrated security automation in AWS environments, contributing to SOX and SOC certifications.
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative: Crafted secure cloud solutions with Terraform, enhancing compliance with HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR standards.
- Funding Circle: Collaborated with product engineering teams to design, implement, and manage security measures critical for achieving and sustaining compliance with SOX, SOC I/II (Type 1 and 2), and GDPR requirements.
Security Leadership and Strategy
- Shopify: Planned, proposed, and implemented several initiatives to monitor and improve large, geographically distributed GCP networks and Kubernetes clusters.
- Mindglob: Founded and operated a consultancy focusing on secure software practices and organizational security readiness.
Technical Mentoring and Development
- Shopify: Organized, supported, and mentored engineers across several production security initiatives.
- Funding Circle: Directed security training programs and the deployment of secure development practices across multiple teams.
Volunteering
BSidesSF
BSides San Francisco is a non-profit organization designed to advance the body of Information Security knowledge by providing an annual, two-day, open forum for discussion and debate for security engineers and their affiliates. We produce a conference that is a source of education, collaboration, and continued conversation for information technologists and those associated with this field. The technical and academic presentations at BSidesSF are given in the spirit of peer review and advanced knowledge dissemination. This allows the field of Information Security to grow in breadth and depth and continue in its pursuit of highly advanced, scientifically based knowledge.
Skytalks
Our mission: to provide a platform for researchers to share their research, for angry hackers to rant about the issues of their industry, and for curious souls to probe interesting issues, all without the watchful eye of the rest of the world. With a strict, well-enforced “no recording” policy, research that is underway or critical of a vendor can be aired to your peers. You are talking to other people in the information and computer underground, and very few topics are taboo. We invite the best of the underground, in all its forms. Esoterica is as welcome as 0-day here, and history, design, APTs (or as we used to call them, hackers who are better funded than you), and extruded intruders have all found a place on our stage.
The Diana Initiative
A diversity-driven conference committed to helping all underrepresented people in Information Security. The Diana Initiative features multiple speaker tracks, capture-the-flag competitions, villages with hands-on activities, and workshops.