He focuses on fostering a culture of inclusivity within security making sure developers feel a partnership with the security team and safe coming to them with issues. He emphasizes a deep understanding of businesses he operates within sculpting the security models to their unique needs.

Prior to Duolingo, Matt was the Lead Application Security Engineer at Blackstone where he started and built out the application security program from 0 to 5 engineers. The core focus of the team was a modular serverless code scanning pro