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
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $229k
Billed in all: $1,044,719$1.04M
$29k in the last 6 months
Across 198 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
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.
- Automation12,739 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top <0.01%🇺🇸#1 of 1,670
- DevOps4,403 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.02%🇺🇸#1 of 475
- Office 3653,328 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.03%🇺🇸#1 of 400
- Google Cloud Platform2,939 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.03%🇺🇸#1 of 364
- Information Security1,158 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.09%🇺🇸#1 of 301
- Computer Network930 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.11%🇺🇸#1 of 183
- Network Security902 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.11%🇺🇸#1 of 158
- Cloud Security639 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 0.16%🇺🇸#1 of 126