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( About Bryan )

Bryan
Lokey

Security & infrastructure engineering leader.
15+ years, scale-up to post-IPO transformations.
Bryan Lokey

Security and infrastructure engineering leader

I'm an engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building security and infrastructure programs across the full lifecycle of company growth, from scale-up to post-IPO transformations. My work sits at the intersection of three disciplines that I think belong together: security, platform engineering, and developer experience.

The throughline of my career has been the same regardless of company stage or domain: build foundations that let engineering teams ship quickly and securely, without forcing them to choose between the two. That conviction started in DevOps and platform work, evolved into security leadership, and now extends into how organizations responsibly adopt AI.

I currently serve as VP of Security & Infrastructure Engineering at Gigamon, where I lead the modernization of the company's security program for a for a global cybersecurity business.

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15+ Years

Engineering leadership

91%

Production incident reduction (Kandji)

47%

Infrastructure cost reduction (Weedmaps)

( The Last Eighteen Years )

A career across
the stages of scale

Each chapter taught me something different about what it takes to build engineering organizations that last.

  • Before 2011 · Freelance & Early Career

    I came up the way a lot of engineers of my generation did: freelance contracts and small Austin tech companies. Early projects included an early YouTube competitor and a range of web app work. I spent stints at Webii/WebXess as a Technical Project Manager and at Think Marketing as a developer and systems administrator. Along the way I took a detour into technical sales at Volusion, an early ecommerce platform, which turned out to be one of the most useful things I ever did. Learning to talk to customers, translate technical concepts to non-technical buyers, and understand how software actually gets bought has shaped every leadership role since.

  • 2011 · Whit.li · Lead Software Engineer

    I joined a small Austin startup building a big-data platform for social media analytics and customer segmentation. As Lead Software Engineer and Product Owner for the frontend, I led product development cycles, managed cloud infrastructure to 99.9% uptime, and built a UI design pattern library that cut development time by 45%. Collaborated with industry partners like Dell, Ford, and TechCrunch. This is where I learned that engineering velocity and consistency reinforce each other, and where I first fell in love with building the systems that let teams move fast.

  • 2014 · Mattr · Director of Product Development

    At Mattr, an Austin-based influencer marketing platform, I made the jump from engineer to engineering leader. I oversaw product development for the flagship enterprise app, implemented strict product requirement standards that cut time-to-delivery by 300%, and built a DevOps culture from scratch by introducing continuous delivery, SLAs, and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Serverless to reduce costs by 450%. I also led the white-labeling of our enterprise SaaS for partners like Western Digital, Whole Foods, Unilever, eBay, and R/GA. This is where I learned to lead distributed teams and where I committed to DevOps as the foundation for everything I'd build next.

  • 2018 · Weedmaps · Sr Engineering Manager, DevOps & SRE

    Weedmaps was my first taste of true hypergrowth. I directed Infrastructure, SRE, and Developer Tooling teams supporting 30+ services and 12+ engineering teams through a period of intense scale, including IPO readiness, platform migrations, and the launch of WM POS and Delivery. We migrated 30+ services to Kubernetes in nine months, decreased infrastructure costs by 47%, reduced production incidents by 74%, and improved delivery speed by 60%. Working with our security advocate to implement compliance and retention policies planted the seed for what would become a much larger part of my career.

  • 2021 · Kandji · Director, then VP of Engineering

    I joined Kandji, a high-growth device management and security company, as Director of Engineering and was promoted to VP of Engineering a year in. I led the transformation from go-to-market product to enterprise-grade platform: drove the adoption of observability, built an automated testing platform, and led a comprehensive re-architecture of the cloud infrastructure that reduced production incidents by 91% and infrastructure costs by 40%. We achieved SOC 2 compliance, launched the Kandji Enterprise API, and built out the modern platform stack: Vault for secrets, Harbor for container registry, ArgoCD for GitOps, Argo Rollouts for canary deployments, Teleport for auditable access. I also redesigned the career advancement framework and global prioritization process, cutting new-hire time-to-productivity by 25%. This is the role where security stopped being a workstream and became a leadership focus.

  • 2023 · Gigamon · VP, Security & Infrastructure Engineering

    At Gigamon, a global cybersecurity and network visibility company serving enterprises and governments across North America, EMEA, and APAC, I lead the rebuild and modernization of the company's security program. The focus: scalability, automation-first compliance (NIST, ISO 27001), unified IAM, containerized security workflows, and self-service tooling that engineering teams want to use. I also established and lead the AI Tech Council, a cross-functional group evaluating and responsibly adopting AI across product and corporate operations.

( Brands )

Built with

Gigamon · Kandji · Weedmaps · Mattr

And worked alongside Western Digital, Whole Foods, Unilever, eBay, R/GA, Dell, Ford, and TechCrunch.

( Education )

Education

  • Master of Music

    Georgia State University

  • Music Business

    The University of Alabama