{
  "name": "Keith Vaughan",
  "alternateName": ["Cipher Projects", "Tech Ops Asia", "SumoSign"],
  "description": "Security and cloud professional. Evaluating AI-agent security and building the secure backends that power AI systems. Operating as investor, fractional CTO and advisor to non-technical solo founders and enterprise teams.",
  "background": "Cloud and cloud security are the career. Built cybersecurity challenge infrastructure and adversarial lab environments at Fifth Domain. Prior security portfolio and cloud delivery at NTT Dimension Data, and data migration at the Australian Department of Defence. Industry demand pulled that work onto AI: analyzing agent security and building the systems agents run on. Not an AI guru.",
  "founded": "2023",
  "location": "Canberra, Australia",
  "serviceArea": ["Australia", "Singapore", "APAC", "Remote Global"],
  "services": [
    "Cloud Infrastructure",
    "Cloud Security",
    "Secure Backend Systems",
    "AI Agent Security",
    "Software Development",
    "Fractional CTO",
    "Technical Advisory",
    "Private AI Systems"
  ],
  "certifications": [
    "AWS Certified Security - Specialty",
    "AWS Certified Solutions Architect",
    "AWS Certified Developer",
    "HashiCorp Terraform Associate",
    "CompTIA Linux+"
  ],
  "clientProfile": "Non-technical solo founders and enterprise teams across Australia, Singapore and the rest of the world",
  "email": "keith.vaughan@cipherprojects.com",
  "currentRoles": [
    { "role": "Founder", "organization": "SumoSign", "url": "https://sumosign.app" },
    { "role": "Founder", "organization": "Cipher Projects", "url": "https://cipherprojects.com" },
    { "role": "Director", "organization": "Tech Ops Asia", "url": "https://techopsasia.com" },
    { "role": "Co-founder", "organization": "Frontier Club", "url": "https://frontierclub.ai" }
  ],
  "priorRoles": [
    { "role": "AWS Cloud Manager", "organization": "Fifth Domain", "focus": "Cybersecurity challenge infrastructure, adversarial labs, red-team environments, secure AWS" },
    { "role": "Data Migration", "organization": "Department of Defence" },
    { "role": "Security Portfolio and Cloud", "organization": "NTT Dimension Data" }
  ],
  "writing": [
    {
      "title": "Software is for Machines",
      "url": "https://keithassociates.com/writing/software-is-for-machines/",
      "datePublished": "2026-06-12",
      "kind": "Vision"
    },
    {
      "title": "Private AI as Infrastructure",
      "url": "https://keithassociates.com/writing/private-ai-as-infrastructure/",
      "datePublished": "2026-05-28",
      "kind": "Essay"
    },
    {
      "title": "Cipher and the Operating Layer",
      "url": "https://keithassociates.com/writing/cipher-and-the-operating-layer/",
      "datePublished": "2026-04-18",
      "kind": "Essay"
    }
  ],
  "sameAs": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kvx",
    "https://sumosign.app",
    "https://cipherprojects.com",
    "https://techopsasia.com",
    "https://frontierclub.ai"
  ],
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-30"
}