Sean Herron Email Address

Planet Labs is focused on the assembly of off-the-shelf electronics into advanced satellites using agile aerospace technologies.

I am a security, technology, and services leader with over 10 years of success in both private and public sectors that includes roles with startups, Slack, NASA, and the White House. Currently, I am the Director of Information Security at Samsara, where I lead efforts to protect our corporate systems, customer data, and key engineering platforms. Previously, I was the Director of Engineering for Business Technology at Slack, where I was responsible for several teams that built and maintained critical infrastructure that enabled the company to scale at incredible speed and efficiency. Our work included delivering several key initiatives around security compliance, zero trust, and identity and access governance. My work in government at NASA, 18F, and as a Presidential Innovation Fellow included extensive policy work and project execution for innovative open data, open source, and API efforts for multiple agencies that were firsts for the US government. Over my career I have built and scaled small IT teams to mature, high-performance organizations, and developed strong technical knowledge across infrastructure, development, IT service delivery, security, cloud computing, network engineering, and integrations. I thrive in organizations with a strong, driven, and diverse team focused on building user-driven products and services. Specialties: Information Security, Security Engineering, Threat Detection, Risk Management, Cloud Computing, AWS, GCP, Leadership/Management, Open Source, Python, Configuration Management, Government Compliance