Austin Rose

Product strategy and go-to-market for a unified intelligent-cloud offering spanning public cloud, datacenter, and edge.

• Restructured a nine-figure cloud portfolio post-acquisition — merged two service catalogs into a single offering across public cloud, datacenter, and edge; own the roadmap from product through GTM.
• Lead cloud product across engineering, marketing, and operations; drive FinOps service strategy and partner ecosystem development.
• Executive sponsor for strategic OEM partnerships (GitLab, NVIDIA, and others) — joint roadmap alignment and co-sell motion across the portfolio.
• Pre-sales SME into mid-level through C-suite conversations across public sector, federal, and commercial accounts.

Built and led the global cloud delivery practice through three title progressions; carried VP-level scope for the final three years.

• Scaled global cloud professional services 30× — from low-seven-figures to tens-of-millions in ARR over four years — earning AWS Strategic Collaboration Agreement eligibility on the strength of that growth.
• Led a global delivery org across the US and Latin America — team-based delivery methods increased utilization meaningfully and improved NPS.
• Created the company's first Junior Engineering program; built a sustainable pipeline of technical talent.
• Delivered AWS engagements spanning HPC, AI/ML, and GenAI workloads; led Amazon Connect contact-center builds at enterprise scale.
• Featured on InterVision's Status Go podcast (Ep. 223) on cloud migration strategy.

Executive-facing cybersecurity SME and architect for enterprise risk and compliance.

• Designed security controls for CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments against enterprise and regulatory requirements.
• Built the asset + attack-surface picture for executive leadership; translated emerging threats into business-impact risk narratives.

Primary architect for California's statewide Security Operations Center, working under interagency agreement between the California Military Department and CDT.

• Chief architect of California's statewide SOC — multi-site Splunk Enterprise Security, Phantom, Okta, and AWS GovCloud enclave, fully Terraform-deployed, ingesting 3+ TB/day across hundreds of devices and many vendors. Stood up the state's first formal threat-hunting program on an asymmetric-warfare-informed MITRE ATT&CK and MaGMa-aligned detection strategy.
• Led intel-sharing for CDT as a participating member of Cal-CSIC, operating across two of California's four-core cybersecurity partnership agencies; customer-side experience of MS-ISAC services (Albert IDS, MDBR, STIX/TAXII CTI).
• Zero Trust architecture in AWS GovCloud under FedRAMP; GitLab CI/CD as the backbone for repeatable SOC deployments.

Co-founder and CTO of an IoT security startup. Owned product architecture, IP, and the OEM integration roadmap.

• Designed and built secure tunneling enabling token-based packet-level access — pushing past higher-level abstractions like ACLs; the underlying approach formed the company's defensible IP.
• Landed an OEM integration with Brocade vRouter prior to the Broadcom acquisition — embedded the platform inside a major networking vendor's edge runtime.
• Set technical direction across the founding team; ran architecture, security, and partner-engineering conversations end to end.

Active-duty rated rescue pilot with combat deployment experience and international cyber advisory responsibilities.

• Combat-deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve.
• 15+ lives saved across stateside rescue missions.
• Cyber advisor to Ukraine through California's State Partnership Program, engaging with the U.S. Department of State and Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (2019–2020).
• Integrate emerging technology into airborne mission-planning environments; coordinate with California's broader cyber mission through the CMD Cyber Network Defense team.

Distinguished Graduate of technical training; fielded COTS software integrations into deployed military mission sets.

• Integrated Cursor-on-Target (CoT) capability for Harris radio systems — extended government hardware through custom software.
• Collaborated with MITRE Corporation on augmented-reality capability for mobile devices in operational environments.
• Supported intelligence platform development for counter-narcotics operations.

A decade of ground operations progression — audit, internal investigations, department-wide IT modernization — before returning to the flight deck in 2024.

• Ran internal investigations into operational incidents, policy, and employee-conduct matters across the station network.
• Led Special Projects — modernized legacy departmental processes and deployed nationwide time-and-attendance systems across multiple stations.