Vetted Cybersecurity Professionals

Sandeep Natu

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Technology Leader (CTO/COO) specializing in Telecom, IT Delivery, and eGovernment platforms

Atlanta, GA19y exp

“Entrepreneurial operator who has started three revenue-generating startups for an employer and is now ready to found independently. Built and scaled a USSD-based lottery product in Nigeria by partnering with MTN, driving 10%+ uplift in gross turnover, and has hands-on experience validating market gaps via SMS/call-center surveys and launching pilots before scaling.”

“Built and operated a production warehouse metadata collection platform at Sigma Computing, integrating Go/gRPC services with a TypeScript backend and MySQL, with strong emphasis on idempotency, retries, bounded-concurrency job queues, and Datadog-based observability. Also created Kurral (kurral.com), an AI agent runtime security and observability/governance SDK/proxy concept, iterating via pilot-customer feedback and market research; targeting founding engineer roles with $180–200k base and ~2–5% equity.”

“Senior engineering leader with deep hands-on experience building and scaling high-throughput platform infrastructure, including a Qualys core data platform using Kafka, Cassandra, OpenSearch, Ceph, and API gateways. He combines architecture depth with people leadership, and has led complex cross-team initiatives such as rolling out a Kubernetes-based container platform across 20 application teams using a phased migration strategy.”

Christopher Bun

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Executive AI/ML technology leader specializing in healthcare, biotech, and legal AI

Irvine, CA17y exp

“Repeat founder and startup advisor with experience spanning academic, health tech, legal tech, sports, and gaming. Has participated in fundraising and due diligence and has built companies, engineering teams, and software platforms from scratch, with a strong product-design-first approach to product-market fit and market selection.”

“Project/program manager with enterprise software implementation experience spanning Dynamics CE/CRM, Azure cloud migrations, SAP modules, and Project Online. Notably led a 20-person cross-functional team on a multi-country CRM migration across the US, UK, India, and Canada while simultaneously managing countries in requirements, pre-go-live, and post-go-live stabilization phases.”

“Cybersecurity entrepreneur building a solution focused on emerging AI-driven security risks, aimed at helping mid-sized companies defend against advanced threat actors without needing large internal teams. Has a business plan, has raised capital, and is currently entering a seed VC round while doing fractional CTO/interim work to cover advisor and corporate legal costs amid upcoming EU cybersecurity/resilience policy changes.”

“Senior technology and venture-oriented leader pursuing a CTO role, with hands-on experience advising an AI startup and a VC firm while also building incubation and technology advisory functions at Iron Mountain. Notably brought a cybersecurity product to market in six months and helped position a blockchain product through early deal development, showing a strong blend of product, strategy, and venture-building capability.”

“Senior engineering leader with experience across cybersecurity, retail commerce, consulting, and media platforms, combining large-scale org leadership with hands-on architecture depth. Notable for driving measurable cloud modernization outcomes—multi-million-dollar cost savings, major latency and MTTR reductions, and compliance-heavy transformations—while also leading AI/NLP and consumer product simplification initiatives.”