// systems architect + software engineer + security engineer

Randy Thompson

22+ years building distributed systems, security platforms, and the tooling that keeps critical infrastructure running.

My career spans the U.S. Army, IBM, and nearly 15 years at GoDaddy, with roles in signal operations, systems administration, systems security administration, networking, site reliability engineering, software engineering, and security engineering. The constant was designing and operating complex production-critical systems at scale, then building the tooling and guardrails that made them safer, more resilient, and easier to run.

The projects below reflect that mix: security that's structural, not bolted on, infrastructure that earns its uptime, and agentic systems that are governed instead of improvised.