Oct 3, 2023
Patrick is an Application Security Advisor, Cloud Security
Architect, IAM Threat Detection & Response Consultant at Fannie
Mae, a leading provider of mortgage financing in the US. He has
over 20 years of technology, application security, artificial
intelligence, data science, cybersecurity, fintech, machine
learning, IoT and cyber physical security experience, spanning the
full spectrum of securing the OSI Model. He is also a certified
ScrumMaster (CSM) and a participant in the Constellation Network
Flight Program, a blockchain-based platform for decentralized
applications.
Patrick has been trusted by the US Federal Government as a Senior
Application Security Engineer & Architect at the High Risk Public
Trust Sensitivity Level. Patrick was the first person ever hired in
the position at the United States 🇺🇸 Railroad Retirement Board, an
Independent Agency of the Executive Branch of the United States 🇺🇸
of America and worked 3 years in that position until accepting a
position at Contrast Security as a Senior Application Security
Solutions Architect in 2020
Patrick accepted a position at ZerNorth.io(Acquired by Harness.io
in November 2021) & built their Rapid Integration Connector for
Rapid Vulnerability Report Integrations into the ZeroNorth.io SaaS
AppSec Testing & Posture Management platform, reducing new
vulnerability reporting format integration timelines from months to
minutes.
Patrick is the founder of CyberArmor.ai, Gratitech Research And
Charitable Endeavor Corporation, & Gratitech Incorporated, a
company that offers an all-inclusive application security solution
to the market, reducing time and cost of cybersecurity management,
while increasing accuracy and protection. He leverages his
expertise in artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, data
science, machine learning & application security to create
innovative software products and services for Gratitech and its
customers, such as s3cr3tx, an open source secret protection/secret
management project that protects secrets and credentials used by
software, applications, source code, developers and software
engineers. Patrick is passionate about coding, yoga, surfing,
meditation, & Jeet Kune Do, & he is currently studying AI and Data
Science at Northwestern University.
Patrick also created and maintains a number of open source AppSec &
AI projects including https://s3cr3tx.com an MVP/POC for cross
platform/multi-infrastructure/multi cloud/programming language
agnostic secret protection solution distributed via download for
on-Premises use and SaaS or hybrid cloud systems use
cases.