Senior technical leader, architect and strategist - 36 years building distributed systems, the last decade at the intersection of cybersecurity and engineering leadership.

Focus areas: Cybersecurity - Identity & Access Management - Distributed Systems - Endpoint Protection - Endpoint Detection & Response - Secure Communications

I guest lecture on cybersecurity and software architecture and have spoken at conference sessions on security engineering topics. The through-line is connecting distributed systems thinking to the practical realities of building secure, scalable software - drawing directly from architecture decisions made at commercial scale, at McAfee on Endpoint Protection, EDR and MITRE ATT&CK, at CrowdStrike's Office of the CTO leading Developer Experience and Open-Source strategy, and currently at Cerby on leveraging Zero Trust Networks to extend Identity Lifecycle Management.

Most production work lives in private repos - commercial and security constraints apply. What's public here is tooling, design patterns and example code that reflect how I approach engineering problems.

Start here:

• donnachaforde.github.io - architectural writing, leadership and cybersecurity (also includes my MSc lecturing content plus a deep dive series into JVM performance).
• LinkedIn - full career track and contact info.
• Code samples - list of my example-code repos, mainly demonstrating various middleware technologies.
• espresso-tools - a collection of useful CLI tools, built using the espresso library.
• Developer Guide on how to use the espresso library (C++) to build your own CLI tools.