Adrian Ludwig

Chief Security Officer - Rippling

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Tackle the hardest problem around. Things I use every day: software platform strategy; security architecture and processes; explaining technical products and services; incident response processes; strategic communications and PR; calm listening Some more technical skills that I lean on from time to time... Java and C/C++ ; Threat Modeling and Security Architecture; Public Key and Symmetric Key Cryptography; X86 Assembler; Application reverse engineering;

Experience

  • Chief Security Officer at Rippling
    Feb 2026 - Present · 6 mos

  • Member Board of Directors at Silicon Valley Community Foundation
    Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Investor at SVCI - Silicon Valley CISO Investments
    Jan 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

  • Security Advisor at Glilot Capital Partners
    May 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 3 mos

  • Chief Architect and CISO at Tools for Humanity
    Jan 2024 - Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    TFH is a 500+ person company founded by Sam Altman and Alex Blania to work on the World Project. The World Project is designed to allow all humans to maximize the benefits of AI in an increasingly online world. It does this with an identity protocol (World ID) connected to a new type of credential (Proof of Human) built on a new camera (the orb) and a set of blockchain based services. The first client application (World App) provides a new developer opportunity (Miniapps) and provides users with access to traditional and Web3 financial networks. To succeed, the protocol needs to be global scale, decentralized, open, secure, privacy enhancing, economically sustainable, and well integrated with other standards and technologies. If it achieves 6 out of 7 of those it will fail, so we need to design to achieve all of them. I work across TFH with our teams of hardware and software engineers, architects, TPMs, PMs, lawyers, marketers and even economists to keep us on the path to have the World Protocol succeed.