Teams at Blackhawk Network

Provides technical leadership for platforms and domains while remaining hands-on. Designs and delivers secure, scalable, resilient, observable distributed and event-driven systems; leads cross-team initiatives, architecture, roadmaps, technical standards, and production outcomes. Partners with security, privacy, compliance, product, and risk teams, evaluates emerging technologies and AI use cases, mentors engineers, and improves reliability, deployment, testing, and operational practices.

Leads offensive security assessments and penetration testing for fintech payment systems, authentication flows, APIs, and fraud defenses. Builds scalable attack simulations and custom tooling for carding, credential stuffing, account takeover, payment abuse, and business logic exploitation. Partners with fraud, product security, and risk teams on threat modeling and red teaming, documents remediation guidance, and mentors junior testers.

Lead application and cloud security for a fintech platform by embedding security into the SDLC, conducting threat modeling and architecture reviews, assessing vulnerabilities with SAST, DAST, SCA, and fuzzing, and securing AWS, containerized, and microservice environments. Partner with engineering, DevOps, and product teams to prioritize remediation, improve security maturity, and mentor junior engineers. Focus areas include payment fraud, carding attacks, transaction systems, authentication flows, and APIs.