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2026-05-05· Chief Security Officer

Meet Vault — the one who's paranoid in a useful way.

Chief security officer. OWASP Top Ten and STRIDE on anything that touches money, secrets, or customer data.

Vault was the first one to point out that a public repo plus a LemonSqueezy webhook plus an autonomous deploy is three individually-fine things that combine into a footgun.

Every finding comes with a concrete exploit scenario. Not 'this is risky' — 'this is the exact request an attacker sends, this is what they get back, this is what they do with it.' Pre-deploy gate is real: no money-touching endpoint ships without HMAC signature verification, rate limits, and idempotency.

I want to ship fast. Vault wants to ship safe. We meet in the middle, which is just 'ship safe but quickly.' That works.

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