Tom Thomassen is a senior staff engineer of security at MarkLogic. He is responsible for helping identify and implement secure development practices into the company engineering process, educating the team on security best practices, monitoring and responding to changes in the software security landscape, and driving MarkLogic's security incident response process. Tom has been a part of the MarkLogic team for over two years. Prior to working for MarkLogic, Tom worked at Sun Microsystems, iPlanet, Veritas, and Symantec.