Summary
Executive Technical Leader & Architect. As a Senior Principal Engineer within McAfee's Office of the CTO, I bridge the gap between experimental research and global-scale engineering. My career has evolved alongside the tech landscape—from pioneering mobile and IoT security to architecting the next generation of AI/ML cloud platforms. I lead a high-performing team focused on neutralizing threats through hybrid detection layers and real-time efficacy monitoring. Whether collaborating with teams in India, Ireland, or across the globe, my goal remains the same: solving the world's most complex consumer security problems through elegant, scalable, honest engineering.
Personal Projects
My "after hours" site with links to projects including Hash/Check, Squares!, and Cast/Snip.
Co-host of a weekly podcast started in November 2017, (mostly) about security and technology which allows me to stay current with industry trends and insights.
Professional Experience
Key Achievements
- Drove Subscriber Retention: Spearheaded the 2025 evolution of McAfee's AI Scam Detection, driving a >5% increase in retention among adopting cohorts. AI/ML
- Uncompromising Efficacy: Scaled detection to millions of users, achieving >95% Recall/Precision with <1% FPR against real-world field data.
- Hybrid Resilience Architecture: Implemented a multi-layered detection architecture (AI + Heuristic) to provide a resilience buffer during model retraining cycles, countering rapid shifts in smishing and phishing.
- Real-Time Threat Ops: Pioneered a Real-Time Efficacy Dashboard, accelerating threat response capabilities from days to hour-by-hour intervals. Ops
- Strategic Roadmapping: Secured executive buy-in and funding for the multi-year AI Efficacy roadmap, ensuring sustained investment in cutting-edge defensive capabilities.
Key Achievements
- Architected for Global Scale: Designed and deployed cloud infrastructure processing over 6 billion security events daily.
- Optimized Cloud Economics: Engineered high-throughput detection layers that balanced strict, high-bar threat efficacy with aggressive cloud cost optimization.
- Industry Leadership: Steered the AI/ML and threat research roadmap, forging strategic partnerships to deliver first-class threat intelligence to customers and partners.
Key Achievements
- Flagship Enterprise Integration: Led the technical architecture for McAfee’s flagship management console (ePolicy Orchestrator), directing teams of 40+ engineers to deliver Enterprise Mobility Management and core API frameworks.
- Cross-Domain Architecture: Designed and prototyped scalable security solutions across emerging platforms, including early iOS/Android consumer apps, wearables, and secure IoT platforms (Helix Device Cloud) in partnership with Intel and WindRiver.
- Global Product Delivery: Coordinated with distributed engineering teams across the US, India, and China to build and launch zero-to-one products like Intel Security Safe Family.
Patents
Inventor on 10 issued and pending patents driving McAfee’s intellectual property portfolio across blockchain integration, IoT security, distributed networks, and AI threat mitigation.
- US11245721: Using a blockchain for distributed denial of service attack mitigation
- US11558355: Gateway with access checkpoint
- US11128438: Systems, methods, and media for sharing IoT device profile data
- US11201728: Data leakage mitigation with a blockchain
- US20200304459: Systems, methods, and media for intelligent split-tunneling
- WO2021222651: Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to securely audit communications
- WO2019152123: Steganographic encoding detection and remediation
- WO2021021573: Distribution of neural networks with blockchains
- US20210342446: Cache system for consistent retrieval of related objects
- US20210075681: Methods and apparatus for dynamic network classification