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Frank Wang

Staff Security Engineer. Recovering CS PhD and VC.

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $25,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $12,500,000.00

Work Experience

2023

  • Staff Security Software Engineer

    2023

    First security hire and lead security engineer. Reporting to the CISO. Securely building a mental healthcare platform that everyone can access!

2022 - 2023

  • Staff Security Software Engineer

    2022 - 2023

    First security engineer hire. Reported into Senior Director of Platform Engineering and then VP of Security. - Built the security engineering team from 1 to 6 people, which owned and scaled product, application, infrastructure security, and security operations (i.e. all of security except compliance and IT security). - Led and implemented technical solutions, programs, and strategies - Scaled security programs for an organization with 180 employees (60 engineers) to 420 employees (130 engineers) and world-class revenue/ARR growth.

  • Principal

    2018 - 2021

    Dell Technologies Capital is the financially-driven investment arm for Dell Technologies. We lead investments in disruptive, early-stage startups in enterprise and cloud infrastructure. Some past companies include Arista, JFrog, Redis Labs, Docusign, Redlock, Twistlock, and Zscaler. I focused on cybersecurity, data infrastructure, and crypto/blockchain. Investments: BastionZero (acq. by Cloudflare, Series A/Board Director), Remediant (acq. by Netwrix, Series A/Board Observer), Cequence Security (Series B/Board Observer), Clovyr (Lead Seed), Soluble (acq. by Lacework, Lead Seed), Appdome (Board Observer)

2015 - 2018

  • Co-Founder

    2015 - 2018

    A summer program for early stage security startups started with Sean Dalton (Meteor VC, formerly Highland). Notable portfolio companies: Huntress Labs, Akita Software (acquired by Postman), Oso, BastionZero (acq. by Cloudflare), Pixm, Gitlinks (acquired by Infor), BlueFyre (acquired by Threat Stack) Source, evaluate, and mentor the teams on business and technical security strategy. Built a community of industry mentors who are top executives in successful security companies, such as Akamai, Imprivata, Rapid7, Tenable, Qualys, and Cybereason.

  • Research Assistant

    2012 - 2018

    I did my PhD in the PDOS lab at MIT, advised by Nickolai Zeldovich and James Mickens. I wrote 5 first-author papers, which were published at top-tier systems and security conferences. My research was at the intersection of cybersecurity, distributed systems, and cryptography.

2014 - 2018

  • Venture Fellow

    2014 - 2018

    Sourcing and investing in pre-seed student startups (focused on enterprise). Notable investments: Instabase, LogRocket, GitLinks (acquired by Infor)

2013 - 2013

  • Security Engineer Research Intern

    2013 - 2013

    Built applications to analyze security logs and improve incident reponse.

2012 - 2012

  • Software Engineering Intern

    2012 - 2012

    I worked on the Security Research Team under Elie Bursztein and Ulfar Erlingsson. I worked closely with the Chrome cache team to improve security and performance of Google Chrome, specifically to reduce vulnerabilities caused by third-party Javascript libraries.

2009 - 2012

  • Research Assistant

    2010 - 2012

    I worked under Dan Boneh in the computer security lab. I did a variety of projects involving applied cryptography and computer security.

  • Research Assistant

    2011 - 2011

    I worked under John C Mitchell. I designed and implemented a secure health information exchange system using advanced cryptographic tools and logic programming.

  • Research Assisant

    2009 - 2010

    I worked in the Flow Physics and Computational Engineering Lab. I developed computational tools to perform analysis on electrochemical energy systems.