Leonard Esere. Cleared. Coding. Compounding.
Active DoD Secret + DoE Q clearances. 11+ years in regulated infrastructure across the national-security and financial-services apparatus. Currently consulting at a DOE national laboratory. PolicyCortex is the platform I've been trying to buy for a decade.
“I've worked inside these buildings. I know what passes a C3PAO assessment and what doesn't. We're not selling a compliance tool — we're selling the way the work was supposed to be done.”
- DOE National LabACTIVECloud Security Consultant
Consulting on cloud security for one of the most sensitive research environments in U.S. national security. See firsthand what compliance demands — and where most tools fail.
- MITRE CorporationPRIORSecurity Engineer
Federally funded R&D supporting DoD. Built threat models, security architectures, and assessment methodologies.
- USAAPRIORCloud Security Architect
Secured cloud infrastructure serving millions of military families. Learned at scale what regulated compliance without engineering drag looks like.
- Frontier AirlinesPRIORInfrastructure Engineer
Production infrastructure supporting real-time operations. First understood compliance cannot be manual — must be automated.
- PolicyCortex2024 →Founder & CEO
Built PolicyCortex to solve the problem I spent 11 years watching from inside. Defense contractors shouldn't need 12 months and $200K to be CMMC-ready.
- P-01
Autonomous Cloud Governance Engine — continuous monitoring + autonomous remediation code generation
- P-02
Neuro-Symbolic Policy Reasoning Architecture — AI proposes, deterministic gates verify, type-system enforces rollback
- P-03
Execution-Safety Substrate — captureState/restoreState pairs as compile-time contract
- P-04
Multi-Framework Bidirectional Control Map — CMMC ↔ NIST 800-53 ↔ FedRAMP ↔ SOC 2 cross-walk
Cleared founder. Runs the engagement personally.
30-min call. No sales overhead. Direct from the founder who built it and holds the clearances.