Farzan Karimi

CEO

Newport Beach, California, United States17 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Deputy CISO at Moderna with extensive security expertise.
  • Speaker at DEFCON and Black Hat conferences.
  • Led multiple Red Team engagements across major tech companies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity Expert with extensive experience in Red Team operations and security engineering.

Contact

LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Red TeamingPenetration TestingSecurity EngineeringTechnical LeadershipApplication SecurityStatic Analysis

Other Skills

Ethical HackingPerlSoftware DevelopmentC++Software EngineeringPythonNmapBashSystems EngineeringMetasploitXMLVisual StudioRed Hat LinuxCISSPSecure Coding

Experience

17 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Moderna

2 roles

Deputy CISO, Executive Director

Promoted

Mar 2026 – Present · 1 mo · Newport Beach, California, United States

Sr. Director, Security Response & Offensive Security

Dec 2023 – Mar 2026 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Newport Beach, California, United States

Google

Engineering Manager, Android Offensive Security

Aug 2021 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Electronic arts (ea)

2 roles

Principal Security Manager, Red Team

Promoted

Jun 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • ● Leads Red and Purple team engagements targeting EA game studios and the corporate network.
  • ● Emulates hacking tactics, techniques and procedures of real-world adversaries to proactively test defenses
  • ● Identifies critical threats in network environments and web applications, through penetration tests, while working with the developers to remediate vulnerabilities.

Senior Manager, Red Team

Jun 2017 – Jun 2020 · 3 yrs

Castling security

Chief Executive Officer

Nov 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 5 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Microsoft

Senior Security Engineer, Windows Red Team

Jun 2014 – May 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Redmond, WA

  • ● Led Red & Purple Team engagements of Xbox Live and Windows services

Blue canopy group, llc

Lead Security Engineer

Jul 2013 – Jun 2014 · 11 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • ● Technical Lead for Pentest Team

Boeing

Senior Security Software Engineer IV

Aug 2012 – Jul 2013 · 11 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • ● Application Security Lead
  • ● Built static code analysis process for $50 million DOD product

Federal deposit insurance corporation (fdic)

Senior Security Engineer, Red Team

Oct 2010 – Sep 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • ● Drove red team efforts, simulating an internal and external adversary

Lockheed martin

Software Engineer LDP (Leadership Development Program)

Mar 2007 – Apr 2009 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • ● C#/C++ developer
  • ● Engineering Leadership Development Program (ELDP)

Boeing

Software Engineer

Jan 2005 – Mar 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • ● C++ developer

Education

Georgetown University

Master of Professional Studies (MPS) — Technology Management

Jan 2016 – Jan 2021

Penn State University

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Jan 2000 – Jan 2004

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