Blake Dunson is exceptionally bad at chess, but marginally competent as a technical operator. Prior to joining the team, he worked at Amazon Web Services as the lead security engineer for multiple products and Vanguard as a technical lead for their cloud security program. He now leads Casca's security, compliance, IT, infrastructure, and quality assurance teams.

When he used to have spare time, Blake was a prolific red teamer of LLM applications, with household-name clients in both the private & public sectors. He's also a volleyball referee at various levels of NCAA and US club competition.