Cybersecurity, teaching people to fly, and building things that probably don't need to exist.
Thirty years in computing, from software assurance research at Georgia Tech to working on cryptography products at MongoDB. Flight instructor, author of two B-grade fiction books, and high school robotics team mentor.
- 2024–2025
- MongoDB, Staff Product Manager, Cryptography. Everything encryption: in transit, at rest, and in use, including Queryable Encryption. Supported MongoDB's highest-value customers with their cryptography requirements.
- 2023–2024
- BeyondTrust, Senior Product Manager, Linux Identity & Privilege Management. Looked after a Linux privilege-management product line and its move from on-prem to SaaS.
- 2020–2023
- Salesforce, Director of Product Management, Cybersecurity & Privacy. Security and privacy; represented Salesforce at the W3C.
- 2003–2020
- Georgia Tech Research Institute, Branch Head. Led a software assurance research team: fuzzing, symbolic analysis, reverse engineering.
- 1997–2003
- Accenture. And a small software company of my own before that. Where the thirty years started.
I take on occasional fractional-CISO engagements for companies that want part-time security help: roadmaps, compliance readiness, and engineering guidance.
→ ask about consultingCommercial pilot and flight instructor. Since 2014 I've instructed and flown tow at Mid-Georgia Soaring Association: flight reviews, added ratings, and first-timers who leave the ground under my supervision and come back grinning. Proud owner of a Glasair Sportsman 2+2, which I've flown from the Texas Hill Country to the far side of the Rockies to Lake Ontario, and back home to Atlanta.
I write fiction.
3.14 Stories, a collection available in print, Kindle, and audiobook, and The World Before Them, a thriller set on another planet.
→ amazon.com/author/joelodom
I mentor robot builders.
FIRST Robotics Team 8736, The Mechanisms. High schoolers, real engineering: programming, control theory, and how to work as a team.
→ themechanisms.org