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Logan Hicks
Security, infrastructure and AI engineering, from the defense community to cloud and payments. Has led engineering teams of 50 or more.
At a glance
- Title: Principal engineer, co-founder
- Years of experience: 20+
- Range: defense and intelligence community, cloud, payments, managed security
- Defense community: Army satellite communications, the Pentagon, the White House Communications Agency, federal cyber programs
- Also: Amazon, Mastercard, Pondurance
- Focus: security, infrastructure, AI and machine learning, penetration testing
Background
I started in Army satellite communications and spent my career on both sides of the table: breaking systems as a licensed penetration tester, then building and securing them at scale, from the Pentagon to Amazon.
Today I build AI and machine-learning systems and lead engineering teams, and I have overseen research teams from MIT, Johns Hopkins and Georgia Tech.
Ben and I both have ADHD, and we do not hide it. It is a superpower, not a death sentence.
On your job I review every change as if someone is trying to break it, because someone will.
Credentials and education
- Licensed Penetration Tester (LPT); RSA Security Analytics Certified Administrator
- Bachelor of Applied Science degrees, University of Texas at Dallas: electrical and electronics, software, telecommunications and chemical engineering
- Associate degree, nuclear engineering, Augusta Technical College
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