I’m Richard.

Patent-pending inventor. Disney inventor award recipient. Director-level product security leader with 12+ years at Fortune 50 scale.

I build AppSec programs that scale, securing hundreds of thousands of repositories, eliminating vulnerabilities before they reach production, and making security something engineers choose rather than tolerate. When no commercial tooling existed at the scale we needed, my teammates and I invented our own and filed a patent.

Today I’m at the frontier of AI security, threat modeling LLM systems, building agentic code review pipelines in production, and developing the standards organizations will need before they know they need them.

CISSP · MBA (USC) · M.S. Cybersecurity Engineering · 8× GIAC · 12+ years

DefenseHorizon is where I share what I’m learning, building programs that scale, securing AI systems, and leading security that enables rather than blocks.