Bayard Bell
Head Of Security at Flourish
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBayard Bell is a pragmatic security leader with 14 years of experience building and running enterprise security programs, currently serving as Head of Security at Flourish in the New York City area. He blends hands-on engineering and architecture—shaped by earlier roles as a software and platform engineer at Nexenta and a VP at Morgan Stanley—with program-level risk management rooted in security frameworks. Bayard has led R&D for managed security services and acted as chief security architect at BlueVoyant and Two Sigma, translating complex infrastructure and HA/DR challenges into auditable, resilient controls. Comfortable “soup to nuts,” he pairs penetration-testing and forensics training with deep operational knowledge of storage, clustering, and distributed systems. Colleagues rely on him to balance technical depth with governance, and to turn thorny production risks into measurable security outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA History International Studies German (minor), BA History International Studies German (minor) at Emory UniversityPenetration testing and forensics, Penetration testing and forensics at 7Safe
English, German, French
Github Skills (26)
unix10
operating-system10
filesystem9
ocaml9
pagerduty8
fuse8
aws-sdk7
aws7
consolidation6
omnios6
python6
terraform6
release-management5
terraform-provider5
boto5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
buffyg/docker-machine-kvm
Sep 2021 - Sep 2024
KVM driver for docker-machine
Contributions:19 PRs, 39 pushes, 36 branches in 2 years 11 months
docker-machineipmidockerkvm
buffyg/illumos-gate
Jan 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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