Travis Mcpeak
Security at SpaceXAI
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolTravis Mcpeak is a seasoned security leader based in San Jose with 11 years of experience securing cloud-native and application platforms at scale. He has led teams and built automation at Netflix and Databricks, architected large AWS security programs, and founded/co-founded startups including Resourcely. Now at Cursor he focuses on product security while also advising and angel-investing broadly across the security ecosystem, backing numerous startups and several acquisitions. He’s an early open-source contributor and maintainer of tools used for cloud and Python security, and previously led development of Repokid to apply least privilege across massive AWS estates. Known for translating security strategy into developer-friendly automation, he blends product instincts with hands-on engineering and investor-level market insight. Trained in computer engineering (Santa Clara University) and computer science (CSULB), he frequently speaks to practitioner audiences and has represented security teams at major conferences.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at California State University, Long BeachMaster of Science (MS) Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University
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Github Skills (40)
botocore10
ssl10
boto10
python10
lemur10
aws-security10
aws-vpc10
least-privilege10
security10
certificate10
aws10
aws-s310
gcp9
hashicorp9
openstack9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mcpeak/aardvark
Dec 2018 - Aug 2025
Aardvark is a multi-account AWS IAM Access Advisor API
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years 9 months
apiadvisoraccountiam-accessiam
mcpeak/repokid
Mar 2018 - Sep 2019
AWS Least Privilege for Distributed, High-Velocity Deployment
Contributions:28 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 6 months
least-privilegedeploymentprivilegeawsvelocity
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