Kaleb Walton Email & Phone Number

Bozeman, Montana, US

Focused on product security for FICO.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Responsible for the technical architecture and strategy of IBM Managed Security Services flagship shared service security management technology - the X-Force Protection Platform.
• Designed and led the growth of the platform to over 500 services deployed spanning 9 hybrid cloud data centers, processing over 300 billion security events per month.
• Continually delivered value through strategic technical leadership and vision, coaching to multiply, clear communication and coordination, iterative and incremental features, swift consensus building, and rapidly.
• Pioneered the thought leadership of securing AI by shifting MLOps into MLSecOps.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Proposed and designed an innovative regional security technology platform which led to more than $10m in signings.
• Led the transformation of fragmented teams into a cohesive organization where I led over 100 engineers to drive growth of the X-Force Protection Platform.
• Applied security, DevSecOps/SRE practices, and continual executive communication.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Designed, developed, and released the first secure MLOps pipeline for the flagship ML application in our division, leading to $1.6m in labor savings and over $100m in signings.
• Led the migration from RedHat Enterprise Linux to CentOS, reducing licensing costs by ~$1m.
• Pioneered the automation of our hybrid private cloud service, introducing tools like Chef, Packer, Terraform, Docker, OpenShift, and Kubernetes.
• Championed decomposition of monolithic software base into one that is modular and more supportive of microservices architecture.
• Partnered in thought leadership to secure DevOps to DevSecOps, as well as implementing and securing Kubernetes to high regulatory compliance standards.

• Gained expertise in system administration and private cloud automation.
• Provided key guidance in software and system architecture and design.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Established a team for managing six product roadmaps aimed at delivering business value, and built trusted relationships with key stakeholders to influence these roadmaps.
• Led the adoption of a user experience-driven agile development process, accommodating rapid staff growth and implementing process improvements.
• Collaboratively developed a future vision and effectively rallied team members towards its realization.
• Earned recognition as a Master Inventor through filing and being granted numerous patents.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Led UX, architecture, design, and development for foundational systems of XPP, contributing to over $1B in revenue over 15 years.
• Led an 11 person team to complete a $1.4M cloud-based engineering project and facilitated change toward agile software development
• Managed the globalization and localization of a cloud-based network security service with 50+ supporting applications processing billions of logs per day
• Public speaking and published articles on agile and software engineering related topics

• Worked through small business development challenges
• Became adept in web, print, multimedia design, object oriented programming and relational databases

• Managed projects and worked directly with clients
• Designed corporate branding including logo, website, brochures, media kit and tradeshow booth
• Designed and developed numerous web applications for local businesses

• Developed and maintained large scale leisure travel portal

Ann Arbor, MI, US

• Supported borders.com and in-store kiosks with Flash multimedia and web development

• Developed cross-browser web applications and Flash-based interactive multimedia for multiple Fortune 500 companies