Enterprise-ready security for startups that ship fast.

Product security assessments and fractional security leadership for early-stage teams. Build the security program your enterprise customers expect, without slowing down your engineers.

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10 years across product security, software engineering, and SOC 2 audit. Led application and AI product security at high-growth AI, fintech, and data platforms.

Your first enterprise deal just sent a 300-question security questionnaire.

Enterprise buyers expect a real security program: SOC 2, secure development practices, vulnerability management, and someone who can answer hard questions about how you protect their data. Most startups need that leadership before they’re ready for a full-time security hire.

Product Security Assessment

Know where you stand.

A focused review of your product’s security posture, architecture, and code. You get clear findings, practical remediation guidance, and a prioritized roadmap you can share with leadership, investors, and customers.

Product Security Assessment

Know where you stand.

Fractional Product Security Lead

Security leadership, embedded with your team.

I join your engineering team, build a risk-based security roadmap, and then execute it: from AppSec tooling and threat modeling to SOC 2 readiness and customer security reviews. You get senior hands-on engineering plus program leadership, without a full-time hire.

Fractional Product Security Lead

Security leadership, embedded with your team.

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I’m a product security engineer and security leader. I’ve spent the last decade securing high-growth AI, fintech, and data platforms, after starting my career as a SOC 2 auditor and working as a backend software engineer. Now I help early-stage startups build the security programs their enterprise customers expect, without slowing their engineers down.

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Why work with me

Built security programs at scale

Deep experience securing AI products

Engineer first, built for developer velocity

SOC 2 from the auditor’s side of the table

TRACK RECORD

Selected highlights

3x faster vulnerability triage

Designed and ran a vulnerability management program with ML-based prioritization.

~1,000 repositories secured

Rolled out code and dependency scanning that found and fixed hundreds of vulnerabilities.

100% of design reviews covered

Built AI-powered security design review that gave feedback on every engineering RFC.

Security built into AI development

Deployed real-time security guidance into AI coding agents used by hundreds of engineers.

Critical RCE caught before launch

Found and fixed a critical code execution flaw in an AI product under a tight shipping deadline.

Sensitive data re-encrypted

Rearchitected field-level encryption across multiple services and millions of records.

Let’s talk about your security roadmap.

Preparing for SOC 2, working on an enterprise deal, or want a product reviewed before launch? Send me a note.

taylor@trustboundarylabs.com