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Neil Gariepy - Vice President, Technology, AI & Information Security in Portland, OR

Neil Gariepy

Executive technology leader specializing in AI, cloud operations, and information security

Airship GroupUniversity of San FranciscoPortland, OR26 Years ExperienceExecutive LevelWorks Remote

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Veteran software engineering executive with ~20 years of experience who grew from hands-on IC and release engineer into VP leadership across AI, security, infrastructure, and platform engineering. Particularly compelling for senior platform or CTO-track roles: he combines board-level strategy with real technical depth, including architecting Airship's multi-agent generative AI platform, leading GDPR/security programs, and scaling NetSuite infrastructure to 99.99% uptime across six global data centers.

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Key Strengths

  • 20 years of engineering leadership from IC to VP
  • VP-level ownership across engineering, AI, and security
  • Architected AI orchestration platform for customer-facing SaaS product
  • Balances executive leadership with hands-on prototyping and technical depth
  • Deep SaaS infrastructure and reliability expertise with 99.99% uptime experience
  • Built and led multidisciplinary SRE, security, and cloud operations teams
  • Managed teams of ~20 with 8 direct reports and $10M+ budget
  • Created follow-the-sun SRE organization across geographies
  • Strong performance management and leadership coaching
  • Owned full-cycle hiring and org build-out under resource constraints
  • Translated GDPR requirements into engineering roadmap and business retention strategy
  • Led security/compliance programs for regulated and European markets
  • Delivered customer-driven encryption project in 2.5 months vs 6-month standard timeline
  • Led cross-functional launch of six global data centers during scale-up
  • Resolved complex legal, procurement, finance, and engineering dependencies at scale
  • Operational credibility from prior on-call, release engineering, and cloud operations experience

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Experience

Vice President, Technology, AI & Information SecurityAirship Group · Jan 2019 – Present
Vice President, Engineering & Information SecurityPercolate · Jan 2016 – Jan 2019
Senior Director, Engineering / Cloud Operations & Cloud SecurityNetSuite · Jan 2013 – Jan 2016
Director, Engineering OperationsNetSuite · Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
Senior Manager, Release Engineering & Acquired ServicesNetSuite · Jan 2008 – Jan 2011
Manager, Release EngineeringNetSuite · Jan 2005 – Jan 2008
Senior Release EngineerNetSuite · Jan 2003 – Jan 2005
Senior Quality Assurance EngineerNetSuite · Jan 2000 – Jan 2003

Education

University of San Franciscomaster, Sports Management & Business Administration (2006)
Boston Universitybachelor, Political Science

Languages

English

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