About Nate

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Hi, I'm Nate. I've been working in the security space for over 20 years, first as an engineer at a Fortune 50, then as an architect, engineering manager and director. I've worked at Scale Venture Partners as an Executive-in-Residence and have been CISO for multiple high growth software companies, including at Tradeshift, where I secured over a trillion dollars in global trade including virtual credit cards and a supply chain financing program with the largest trade bank in the world. 

In addition to security, I was responsible for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Devops/Platform Engineering, IT, Platform Applications and the CI/CD teams, giving me extremely broad perspective into all of the pieces that go into rapidly and consistently delivering high quality, cloud hosted business software. Cloudsec.ai is the culmination of that work and allows me to share what I've learned with other businesses, setting them up for future success. Think of it as "Shifting Left" but at business scale.

I've always loved the sense of urgency, cohesive purpose, get-shit-done attitude and the maniacal focus on delivering software to customers. I've seen where that ability to deliver is affected by checklists of requirements not based on actual risk from practitioners don't understand how the systems they were charged with securing actually work. I ensure that where controls are built, they are based collaborative efforts with the business and especially, with Engineering. I ensure that controls take into consideration context and are based on evidence and ground truth, not security lore from times past. Most of all, I seek to build a culture that prizes collaboration and partnership across the company, one that uses understanding and empathy as a tool to gather feedback and improve rather than a program that starts from a place of protecting "dumb" users from themselves.

I consider myself to be very fortunate to be able to live and work in the Bay Area where I'm continually surrounded by a rich history of people pushing the boundaries of what's possible, taking a chance that their dream might become the next big thing. I bring that same spirit when helping businesses reach the next level. building the strong and business-aligned security programs that are critically important for selling to today's modern enterprises.

If this strikes a chord with you and you'd like to hear more about how Cloudsec.ai can help your business, reach out to nate@cloudsec.ai