Austin Gadient

Austin Gadient is a cofounder of Vali Cyber and serves as the company’s CTO. Austin is the primary author of Vali Cyber’s ZeroLock® platform, the world’s first preemptive hypervisor security that combines portability, performance, and efficacy into one easy-to-use system.

Prior to starting Vali Cyber, Austin was an officer in the United States Air Force and developed secure software architectures for America's satellite infrastructure. Austin holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he completed a thesis on a novel automatic exploit generation system called RAGE, as well as a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy where he was a captain of the Academy's competitive hacking team and the number one engineering graduate from the class of 2018.