Individual Member Profile

October 02, 2026

Omer Farooq operates at the intersection of public policy, cybersecurity, cloud architecture, and artificial intelligence. With more than twenty‑five years of experience across technical innovation, strategic advisory, and policy consulting, he operates as a multidisciplinary expert shaping how organizations navigate emerging technologies and global cyber risk. As Founder and Principal Consultant of Auxin Security, Omer has supported more than one hundred organizations worldwide, including Fortune 10 enterprises, government agencies, and impact‑driven nonprofits. His advisory work spans technology governance with an emphasis on responsible and safe deployment AI, secure architecture, threat modeling, offensive security, cloud security, hands‑on engineering, and enterprise digital transformation. His guidance reflects a unique blend of high‑level policy training and deep technical expertise. Omer was the founder of OFQ International, which exited after successfully commercializing advanced SATCOM control research for the U.S. Department of Defense. He also founded Auxin.ai, a secure commercial token‑exchange platform for emerging intelligent systems, and AlphaScale.Cloud, a context‑aware, risk‑based DevSecOps automation platform. He has delivered more than fifty keynote talks and panel sessions at leading global conferences, including DefCon, RSA Conference, ACM SIGGRAPH, DevOpsCon, various BSides , AWS Summits, NAB Show, Hack in the Box, Infosecurity Magazine, Avid Connect, Microsoft Azure events, and HPA. His presentations span AI security, cloud‑native security, DevSecOps, threat modeling, offensive security, and emerging cyber threats. Omer earned his MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, where he was a member of MIT’s Trust Center, the Social Innovation + Change Initiative (SICI), and the Harvard Innovation Labs. He also holds engineering degrees from Stony Brook University and the Rochester Institute of Technology. SUNY Stony Brook recognized him as a 40 Under 40 alumnus. Beyond his professional work, he co‑founded the Farooq Foundation, a non‑profit impact organization providing free K–12 education in native languages to millions of learners annually. He supports various early startups with non-binding seed funding through Auxin Ventures. Outside of work, Omer enjoys rebuilding BMW inline six‑cylinder engines and teaching robotics to high school students.