Summary
Lee Blackburn is a security consultant and contractor based in the Atlanta metro area, armed with CISSP and SANS credentials and a track record of building and maturing security programs. He has led security, risk, and compliance initiatives for diverse organizations, most recently directing Vehlo's security program and evaluating cybersecurity risk for investments against PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA. He brings hands-on DevSecOps expertise—cloud automation with Terraform, Azure, AWS, and governance-aware CI/CD practices—across procurement to production. His career spans architecture, software delivery, and security leadership across financial services and automotive ecosystems, enabling scalable and secure software delivery. He combines strategic risk oversight with practical engineering to ship secure systems at speed, and has served as a board technical advisor to guide technology direction for a non-profit.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer