ajw4sk@github:~$ whoami
Andrew Wippl • CISSP • ISO / DPO • Solutions Architect • Integration Team Builder • AI-focusedI build secure, scalable platforms and integration ecosystems—with a strong bias for governance, privacy, and pragmatism.
My background spans security leadership (ISO), privacy leadership (DPO), and hands-on engineering (developer → full stack → architecture). I’m known for taking security from “checkbox” to operational capability: building programs from scratch, scaling them across organizations, and making them work in the real world—especially during M&A and international growth.
Increasingly, my work centers on AI-enabled systems: shipping practical automation while keeping risk, data, and access under control.
location: Arlington, VA
linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewwippl/
email : awsmail@icloud.com- Security and privacy should be default behaviors, not gates.
- Prefer designs that are simple, observable, and reversible.
- Automate the boring (and risky) parts.
- Build teams with clear standards + autonomy.
- Treat AI like production software: threat model, measure, iterate.
[SEC] Build and run security programs that scale across products and orgs
[PRIV] Turn privacy requirements into clear policy + operational process
[CLOUD] Architect multi-cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / OCI) with guardrails
[APP] Bring AppSec into delivery: SDLC, vulnerability mgmt, and secure patterns
[INT] Build integration teams and ecosystems: APIs, events, pipelines, enablement
[AI] Apply AI to ops responsibly: access controls, audit trails, data minimizationInstead of “projects,” here’s the kind of work I’m usually doing:
- Building a security & privacy function where none existed, then making it a trusted internal partner
- Raising maturity across multiple orgs during mergers, acquisitions, and integration
- Helping teams meet tough requirements (think NIST 800-53, audits, and customer due diligence) without grinding delivery to a halt
- Scaling security across many product teams and a large engineering org through patterns, standards, and enablement
- Making security visible and measurable with the right operational tooling (identity, monitoring, endpoint, logging, etc.)
- Bringing order to integration sprawl—establishing API practices, developer enablement, and dependable interfaces
- Turning security and compliance into a sales accelerant by improving clarity, trust, and transparency
ajw4sk@github:~$ echo "ship it"
ship it