TONY ROSSI · POULSBO, WASHINGTON · BUILDER OF SYSTEMS FOR PEOPLE THE SYSTEMS GAVE UP ON
Twenty-one years of service. A stack of ventures. One conviction: if the system is cruel, build a better system.
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WHO I AM
I am not the resume. Neither are you.
Twenty-one years in the U.S. Navy. I retired as a Senior Chief in 2023 and walked into a hiring machine that reads people in six seconds and calls it efficiency. It filtered out better people than me every single day. I decided that was unacceptable, and then I decided that deciding wasn't enough.
So now I build. A nonprofit that teaches kids to defend themselves online. A quiet advisory practice for people whose adversaries are real. Compliance you can prove any day of the year. Infrastructure for the DIY music scene. A place where strangers who disagree meet face to face. None of it waiting for permission. All of it shipped by hand from a small town on the Kitsap Peninsula.
Cynicism is surrender wearing a smirk. I don't surrender.
THE sIQURITY FOUNDATION — FOUNDER & CEO · 501(c)(3)
Every kid inherits the threat landscape. Almost none of them get handed the tools. The ones in underserved communities get handed nothing at all.
The sIQurity Foundation exists to close that gap with real curriculum, real hands, real outcomes — cybersecurity education for the communities the industry never bothers to visit. Not a career-day slideshow. A pipeline.
PILLAR I
Project-based cybersecurity education spanning 5th through 12th grade, piloted in the classroom — competency-based, hands-on, built to pull families in instead of shutting them out.
PILLAR II
Adult training that leads somewhere — a NIST CSF bootcamp and a full learning platform built to move people from locked-out to hired.
PILLAR III
Free and low-cost security help — assessments, awareness training — for the nonprofits, schools, and small organizations that attackers count on being defenseless.
TONY ROSSI CONSULTING — PRINCIPAL
Boutique privacy and security advisory for select organizations and private clients — the people whose threat model is not hypothetical.
Most security consulting is a slide deck and an invoice. This is the other kind: quiet, senior, hands-on. The same discipline that ran security programs at sea, applied to the people and organizations who cannot afford to learn in public.
No cookies. No trackers. No third-party scripts.
The practice is built the way the advice is given.
THE REST OF THE CATALOG
Liner notes for the other fights. Each one started the same way: something was broken, nobody owned it, so I did.
FOUNDER / BUILDER
Infrastructure for the whole indie/DIY scene — artists, club owners, show bookers, fans. Cheap ticketing that doesn't gouge the door. Ticket sales that split themselves the second they clear, so nobody chases the money after load-out. Tour planning and real data analytics for people who've been running on gut and a spreadsheet.
The majors built their machine. This is ours — every hand that holds a scene up, on one platform.
FOUNDER / BUILDER
Open-source, tamper-proof compliance infrastructure between enterprises and regulators — CIaaS. It started life as attesting, a continuous-auditing engine built on the conviction that the annual audit is theater. Then the thesis got sharper: the client deploys it, the auditor reads it, and the client cannot touch the output. Continuous monitoring, cryptographically signed findings, built for the era of mandatory independent audits.
A company grading its own homework was never an audit. Structural separation is the product.
FOUNDER / BUILDER
A modular cybersecurity platform that fuses live threat intelligence with real-world operator experience to pinpoint an organization's actual posture — not the one on the slide deck. One source of truth, two altitudes: the same data that fires an alert to the SOC analyst writes the report to the CISO. No translation layer, no telephone game.
Built on a world-model approach — inspired by Yann LeCun's work — because a defense that can't model its own environment is just a louder alarm.
FOUNDER / BUILDER
A video chat platform that pairs strangers across the widest disagreement it can find and hands them one icebreaker — aimed at a personal story, not a debate. Peer-to-peer WebRTC, so the conversation belongs to the two people having it and never touches a server. Built on the intergroup-contact evidence: the fastest way to shrink an enemy is to meet one.
The feed sells you a country of enemies. Ninety seconds of another person's face is the refutation.
CO-FOUNDER & CEO · STOOD DOWN
A candidate intelligence platform built on one refusal: a human being is not a keyword density score. Blind matching, candidate-owned identity, an AI coach that answered to the applicant and no one else. It said what needed saying. Then I put it down.
Retired, not renounced. The conviction didn't get shelved — it moved into everything above.
THE PATH
The history in plain type. No mythology required.
SERVICE
U.S. NAVY
2002–2023
Twenty-one years. Retired Senior Chief. Built security programs where failure wasn't an abstraction.
CREDENTIALS
CISSP / CISM
Certified, current, and earned the long way — in production, not in theory.
SCHOLARSHIP
PHD CANDIDATE
Cyber Leadership, Capitol Technology University. Because the work deserves rigor, not just conviction.
GROUND
POULSBO, WA
Small town, Kitsap Peninsula. Everything above gets built here, by hand.
CONTACT
If you're building something honest, I want to hear about it. If you're hiring people who actually give a damn, same.
me [at] tonyrossi [dot] dev