Dave Lesser
Chief Information Security Officer
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolDave Lesser is a seasoned technology and security executive with 11 years of senior leadership experience guiding product, engineering, and security at GPS Insight, now serving as CISO. He brings a rare combination of hands-on cloud and DevOps expertise—having led large AWS migrations, immutable infrastructure, and CI/CD automation—with board-level accountability for compliance, risk, and technology budgets. Dave has repeatedly scaled teams and platforms across SaaS product launches, field-service and telematics engineering, and enterprise IT while reporting directly to CEOs. His background includes turning legacy offerings into cloud-native, multitenant platforms and growing a skunkworks initiative into a high-margin global business at DHL. Known for marrying practical engineering with business outcomes, he excels at reducing operational toil and time-to-market through automation and architecture. Based in Scottsdale, AZ, he blends product-minded leadership with active security stewardship across the organization.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Double Major: Finance International Business, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Double Major: Finance International Business at Gonzaga UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA Cum Laude Finance, Master of Business Administration - MBA Cum Laude Finance at University of Notre Dame
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Github Skills (11)
fusionauth9
harbor8
docker-registry8
activerecord6
docker6
container6
ruby-on-rails6
management4
hubot4
manager4
hipchat3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
davelesser/manager-readme
May 2019 - Feb 2022
Manager README
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 9 months
manager-readme
davelesser/villageatflw.org
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:8 PRs, 26 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 11 months
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