Trever McKee

About Trever McKee

Tenured leader with over 10 years leading engineering teams to build scalable products that delight customers. CTO @ Heeler building the next generation of Application Security by building a unique product that blends business context, application context, and code context to provide meaningful security outcomes for our customers.Revolutionized Cloud Security and Vulnerability Management as lead architect for Rapid7. At Riot Games designed and built the next-gen data and ML strategy supporting 10 million events per second, hundreds of million monthly active users, and built products generating billions in annual revenue.

Experience

1. Co-founder and CTO

   Heeler

   Jun 2023 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Engineering Execution: Built the engineering organization from 0 to 12+ engineers, fostering a culture of rapid innovation and technical excellence.Fundraising: Successfully raised an $8.5M Seed round, articulating a high-growth technical vision that secured critical early-stage capital.Product Innovation: Engineered the Heeler MVP, including the initial version of the user interface and the unified Application Security Platform integrating SAST, SCA, and Secrets detection into a single pane of glass.Patent-Pending Technology: Pioneered novel correlation techniques (patent pending) to map runtime infrastructure directly to exact code repositories and changesets, drastically reducing mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR).AI & Automation: Developed Agentic Remediation capabilities, leveraging AI to automate the process of fixing application vulnerabilities at scale.Enterprise Architecture: Built a scalable, enterprise-ready architecture capable of handling security telemetry and issues in real/near-real-time.

Education

• Bakersfield College

  Transfer, Engineering

  2008 — 2011

• California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

  BS, Computer Engineering

  2011 — 2013

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Spring Integration
• Software Engineering
• Networking
• Eclipse
• Security
• Amazon S3
• Amazon Rds
• Python
• Scrum
• Amazon Sqs
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Apache Spark
• Spring Security
• Javascript
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Leadership
• Spring Di
• Pl/Sql
• Amazon Ec2
• Sql
• Linux
• Maven
• Cloud Computing
• Javascript Libraries
• Spring Framework
• Test Driven Development
• Postgresql
• Emr
• Agile Leadership
• Mysql
• Spring Mvc
• C
• Programming
• React.js
• Aws
• Java