David Campbell — CTO

David Campbell is an AI security leader and engineering executive with over twenty years of experience building and scaling infrastructure, security, and AI systems at Uber, Nest Labs, DoorDash, and Scale AI. At Scale, he leads AI Security Engineering and built the company’s AI Red Teaming platform, which has been demonstrated to the White House, briefed to the U.S. Congress, and presented to international governments and NATO partners. His work focuses on a simple but uncomfortable truth. Most AI failures are not model failures. They are boundary failures. As models gain tool access, memory, and autonomy, the risk shifts from outputs to authority. David’s work centers on defining those boundaries, designing hard controls, and helping organizations understand what real AI security looks like in production. He is a founding member of OWASP AIVSS and the creator of the AI Risk Matrix framework, helping security leaders move from vague “Responsible AI” language to measurable risk strategy. Peers describe his leadership style as blue-collar exec energy. He builds with his hands. He thinks in systems. He speaks in plain English. And he believes the next generation of security leaders must understand AI not as magic, but as infrastructure. AI security is not a tooling problem. It is a trust problem. The next decade will be defined by who understands that first.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI security and infrastructure engineering.

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Experience: 16 yrs 11 mos