Aaron Rinehart is a senior distinguished engineer, SRE and Chaos Engineering at Capital One. He has spent his career solving complex engineering problems and transforming cybersecurity practices across a diverse set of industries: healthcare, insurance, government, aerospace, technology, higher education, and the military. Aaron has been expanding the possibilities of chaos engineering in its application to other safety-critical portions of the IT domain, most notably in cybersecurity. He began shaping the application of chaos engineering within cybersecurity during his tenure as the Chief Security Architect at a Fortune 4, UnitedHealth Group (UHG). Rinehart is a frequently requested speaker at respective media outlets and conferences, most notably RSA, O’Reilly’s Velocity, Blackhat/DefCon, GOTO, OWASP Global, and QCon. He has been interviewed and quoted in various publications including The Huffington Post, ABC News, TechTarget, DarkReading, SecurityWeekly, IEEE, and The Washington Post.
