Matt Kadenbach

Director of Engineering @ Shield AI

Country

United States

City

San Diego Metropolitan Area

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Application Security, Go, Docker, Network Security, Distributed Systems, Microservices

Experience

Director of Engineering

Shield AI

2025-11 - Present · 11 mos

San Diego, CA

Platform Applications

CTO & Co-founder

Pluto

2022-1 - 2025-7 · 3 yrs 7 mos

New York, NY

Built Pluto Web Proofs to enable verifiable access to user-authenticated data across the web, powered by AI browser agents secured by Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP). Scaled engineering team focused on technical excellence and rapid product iteration.

CTO & Co-founder

Templarbit (acquired by Zurich Insurance)

2017-2 - 2021-11 · 4 yrs 10 mos

San Francisco, California, United States

Accepted into Y Combinator (S17) and raised funding to scale engineering from 0 to 15, delivering data-driven application security - trusted by enterprise, government, and U.S. military. Acquired by Zurich Insurance.

Senior Software Engineer

Synack

2015-1 - 2016-8 · 1 yr 8 mos

Redwood City, California, United States

Led development of Launchpoint, a distributed penetration testing platform, and built Docker-based workflows to improve developer productivity and streamline internal tooling. Contributed during a period of engineering hypergrowth, supporting team and process development.