Aug 5, 2026 · 46 min · 10 segments
Patrick McKinney, VP of Security at Invisible Technologies, has spent his career building security and compliance functions from the ground up, from Coinbase to Dropbox to Salesforce. He shares the…
Patrick McKinneyGuest
Stephen KozaHost
This is the show for engineers and technical leaders in the trenches, the people building platforms, running cloud, scaling infrastructure, and figuring out what's next.
Every episode, I sit down with somebody who's actually doing the work to get the real story.
A crypto exchange, a file sharing giant, a big enterprise software company that was trying to figure out FedRAMP.
My guest today has stood up the first version of a security or compliance program at all three.
It didn't survive all the stops, but what he kept is probably not what you would expect.
Every episode, we bring in a practitioner, somebody who's actually in the arena to share what's happening behind the scenes in platform engineering, DevOps, cloud, leadership, security.
Patrick spent pretty much his whole career building security and compliance functions from the ground up.
Outside of work, you'll find them in the backyard cooking and barbecuing, and I definitely want to talk about that.
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This is the show for engineers and technical leaders in the trenches, the people building platforms, running cloud, scaling infrastructure, and figuring out what's next.
Every episode, I sit down with somebody who's actually doing the work to get the real story.
A crypto exchange, a file sharing giant, a big enterprise software company that was trying to figure out FedRAMP.
My guest today has stood up the first version of a security or compliance program at all three.
It didn't survive all the stops, but what he kept is probably not what you would expect.
Every episode, we bring in a practitioner, somebody who's actually in the arena to share what's happening behind the scenes in platform engineering, DevOps, cloud, leadership, security.
Patrick spent pretty much his whole career building security and compliance functions from the ground up.
Outside of work, you'll find them in the backyard cooking and barbecuing, and I definitely want to talk about that.