Cat Starkey

Oversight and development of tech strategy, architecture, infrastructure, and integration for a small public benefit corporation helping connect local farmers to their community and customers.

- As CTO, scope increased from VP, Eng to include Data Science and Detection & Response Engineering - Scaled the MDR platform to process billions of security alerts per day with a 1480x increase in daily ingest over 4 years, demonstrating massive platform scalability while maintaining efficiency through automation, AI, and D&R expertise, limiting alert volume growth to only 3x. - Grew the engineering organization from 47 to 100 people, successfully expanding the team's footprint to include operations in Ireland. - Led the development and launch of key new product initiatives, including Phishing, Hunting, Vulnerability Management, MDR for Kubernetes, MDR for Email, and Emerging Threat Hunting. - Improved the company's gross margin from 65% to 74% through platform efficiency, software cost management, and feature development to improve SOC efficiency. - Successfully optimized R&D spending, reducing R&D as a percentage of revenue from 46% to 32% whilst doubling the team as the company grew from $27M ARR to $127M. - Contributed significantly to the company being named as a Leader in 3 consecutive Forrester Waves (2021, 2023, 2025). - Drove the expansion of the MDR platform to support 150 integrations (up from 50) - Secured critical vendor partnerships for GTM partner programs and co-build opportunities - Cultivated a culture of innovation resulting in the filing of 17 Patents. - Authored Engineering Career Matrix, Mentorship Programs, and Intern Programs geared towards providing equitable opportunties across all demographics

- Responsible for all Product Engineering teams (infra, platform/product, quality) - Key accomplishments covered under CTO section above

- Implemented transition to Cloud solution and hosting on AWS, including DevOps pipeline and infrastructure from legacy hosting to AWS EC2, ElasticSearch, RDS, and other services for 50 environments resulting in increased security, uptime, and scalability and 50% decrease in company infrastructure costs - Foster the company's testing best practices and development/oversight of automation tools and coverage for improved quality and time to delivery - Develop 90% of the company's DevOps and internal metrics and monitoring tools using Node, .NET, and PowerShell - Architecture and delivery oversight on 20 projects built on our company core product, delivered by a dev team of ~7 developers/QA - Drive strategic planning sessions with stakeholders on defining product functionality roadmap, technical roadmap, and business goals - Promote a culture of continuous improvement through communication, creative motivation and developer sharing sessions - Technical and delivery oversight of core product development team and custom project development team - Architect and occasional developer on a micro-service based solution for Accreditation and Quality Management backed by .NET and SQL server with a javascript/Aurelia front end, leveraging ElasticSearch and CouchDb - Oversee continuous improvement to the CI process for standing up environments and publishing/consuming the solution as a platform for custom solution development - Oversee, design, and implement custom architecture/solutions including integrations with CRM, Salesforce, GP, payment providers and other systems - Troubleshoot escalated environment and customer issues - Technical consultant on sales meetings and with existing customers - Managed planning and delivery process for the core product team, including roadmap planning, Product Owner role, and team management - Wash dishes

- Architect and developer on a micro-service based solution backed by .NET and SQL server with a javascript/Aurelia front end, leveraging ElasticSearch and CouchDb - Developed CI process for standing up environments and publishing the solution as a platform for custom solution development including scripting in Node and PowerShell - Oversaw and designed custom architecture for custom solutions - Troubleshot environment and customer issues - Managed planning and delivery process for the core product team

● Trained and individually coached our 8 cross discipline teams in Agile/Scrum methodologies, continuous integration best practices, and quality driven development ● Wrote and instituted an Agile Maturity Model for development teams across the company ● Instituted milestone planning and story mapping practices for the Blackboard Learn flagship product, already producing increased efficiency in delivery time, quality, and morale ● Work with Product Management, design, architects, and dev teams to define, breakdown, organize, prioritize, and distribute work ● Architectural oversight on large scale angular/typescript web application to support Blackboard Learn SaaS ● Created common component repository for sharable directives/services, including private bower registry

Autodesk BIM 360 ● Lead Architect for 4 development teams transitioning a legacy cloud application architecture to microservices based architecture leveraging internal platform services through an API Gateway pattern (OAuth, Apigee, Scala/Play framework) ● Worked with architects across the organization to create a shared services ecosystem with seamless transitions between multiple pre existing web clients ● Worked with Product Management and stakeholders to define and breakdown work and distribute to teams ● Architected and developed rich, componentized, object oriented, unit/integration tested javascript web framework to facilitate rapid development of features (leveraging backbone, requireJS, Jasmine BDD, jQuery, and several other popular client side frameworks; thin java server side layer to handle OpenID/API authentication and serving content from apache/tomcat web server) ● Lead Agile development of a thick javascript client centered around a Firebreath browser plugin for large model viewing and interaction ● Mentored and trained junior and new members of the team on client side technologies and programming patterns and practices

2011 - 2012 Autodesk Buzzsaw - Coordinated and architected rapid development of modern front end for Buzzsaw legacy application leveraging ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, and various client side frameworks - Implemented generic front end for custom Solr Lucene search server using backbone.js to provide customizable UI through class-based autogenerated js and templating - Managed team of contracted remote developers 2008-2011 Autodesk Project Bluestreak (live on Autodesk Labs) is a collaboration solution for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry that leverages current social networking paradigms – Rapidly got up to speed on new technologies and open standards, specifically for social networking – Architected & developed client side using jQuery, Javascript, Ajax, ASP.NET MVC, C#, OpenSocial, OAuth, IOC, Java, AWS, Velocity, Thrift – Architected & developed third party OpenSocial desktop application in C++ and Qt that receives real time notifications from XMPP PubSub nodes – Led development team to successful iterative releases, using Agile development with Scrum – Worked with design to ensure usability and efficiency of UI development – Mentored junior team members 2006-2008 File Sharing and Workflow platform for Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry – Investigated new technologies and architected client side of new platform for file sharing services; – Developed UI and core framework using: Lucene search engine, ASP.NET WebForms, C#, HTML, Javascript, WCF, Agile development – Mentored and managed junior team members in US and China 2001 – 2005 Buzzsaw file sharing service, thick client and web client for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction professional services – Developed ASP.NET; WebForms; C#; MFC, C++; SQL – Development Team Lead for BZ professional services Bidding application – Management of team members in India

JSP Bid Manager web application development – java beans, HTML, javascript ASP.NET WebForms application development

Web site design & development

- Web site design & development - File sharing/previewing windows application & Shell extension - UI development using MFC