Blake Dunson is exceptionally bad at chess, but marginally competent as a security generalist. 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.

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Blake holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and dropped out of the Master's program at UT Austin to pursue more security-focused studies. 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.