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John D.
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John D.

Fractional CTO | Cybersecurity, Email Security, DevOps & AI

Expert-Vetted on Upwork (top 1%), 190+ engagements. Clients span private equity and VC firms, family offices, HNWIs and businesses from small shops to enterprises. - Strategy & roadmap — assess where you are, decide the right stack, own the plan to get there - Cybersecurity consulting — Zero Trust access, threat protection, security architecture, and hardening across your stack - Email security & deliverability — DMARC, BIMI, MTA-STS, anti-spoofing, Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace - DevOps & automation — CI/CD, infrastructure, and workflow automation - AI integration — practical AI and agent workflows built into how your business runs - Network & cloud engineering — Cisco Meraki (VLANs, segmentation, full builds), cloud infrastructure, backup & disaster recovery Certifications: Cisco CCNA & Meraki (CMNO/ECMS2) · Zscaler ZTCA · Proofpoint (Email Auth, Security Awareness, Ransomware) · Klaviyo Deliverability · EasyDMARC · Google Cloud · JAMF · MBA + B.S. Accounting

🇺🇸Setauket-East Setauket, United States$500/hr100% JSS5.00 (123)Since Oct 2020

Earnings and projects

MRR
$38k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#29 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#17 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$35k

Last 6 months: $229k

Total earnings
$995k

Billed in all: $1.04M

World#576 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#260 / 62.1k
Per project
$5.4k

$29k in the last 6 months

World#32,140 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#5,329 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
8
13% fixed87% hourly
World#24,501 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#3,600 / 62.1k
Projects in all
184

Across 198 contracts

15% fixed85% hourly
World#11,410 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#1,974 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$1.04M+$34.8k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$1.00M$1.02M$1.04M$1.06MNo dataOct 9Oct 24Nov 8

Read once a week before Oct 28, 2026, daily since. Dotted: longer than usual between two readings. Hatched: over two weeks without one.

Skill rankings: #1 in 13 skills of 15

Rarest: top <0.01% in Automation, of 12,739. Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. 1Automation12,739 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top <0.01%
  2. 1DevOps4,403 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.02%
  3. 1Office 3653,328 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.03%
  4. 1Google Cloud Platform2,939 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.03%
  5. 1Information Security1,158 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.09%
  6. 1Computer Network930 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.11%
  7. 1Network Security902 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.11%
  8. 1Cloud Security639 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.16%