Hi there, I’m Carlo Mencarelli.
I'm an engineering leader at Abnormal AI.
Before my current role, I was a security leader at HackerOne; before that, I was the technical lead for the Infrastructure team at HackerOne. I typically spent my days working with other teams and the infrastructure engineering team, helping them develop sane solutions for the organization's product development, problems, and everything in between.
I enjoy working with tools like Terraform and architecting purpose-built systems. I spend my off time writing about the public cloud, security, and organizational topics relating to engineering. Really, whatever is sparking my curiosity at the moment.
A Brief History
I’ve worked at various levels of engineering, from tier-one support to senior system engineering, focusing on architecture for mission-critical systems. I've done this in both small, late-stage startups and large Fortune 500 defense corporations. I started by enlisting in the United States Marine Corps, providing logistical support.
After my enlistment, I went back to school to earn an undergraduate degree in Information Systems from the Florida Institute of Technology. The program leaned more toward business than I anticipated. Still, it gave me an interesting perspective on how companies work, which I like to think makes me more customer- and expense-focused. My time at Florida Tech also led directly to my first role at Harris (now L3 Harris), where I did all sorts of things I'm sure most interns didn't.
In 2019, I finished a graduate degree in Applied Data Science from Syracuse University. Since I was already familiar with Python and most database technologies introduced in the program, I focused more on statistical theory, which provided me with a healthy respect for the math behind statistics and AI.
After that, I've been hopping around different early- to mid-stage pre-IPO startups.
If you want to know more about me, feel free to check out my GitHub or email me directly at me@carlo.cloud