David Rodriguez works as a Senior Research Engineer at Cisco Umbrella (OpenDNS). He has co-authored multiple pending patents with Cisco in distributed machine learning applications centered around deep learning and behavioral analytics. He has an MA in Mathematics from San Francisco State University and has previously spoken at cybersecurity conferences like Black Hat, Virus Bulletin, HITBSec, and FloCon. He is also a contributor to Stripe's Rainier project authored by Avi Bryant.