
Matthew Sweeney
Co-Founder and CTO, Gomboc AI
Matthew Sweeney is Co-Founder and CTO of Gomboc.ai, where he leads the development of deterministic AI systems that execute secure, production-ready Infrastructure-as-Code remediation directly in developer workflows.
Prior to founding Gomboc, Matt led the Mandiant Security Validation engineering team at Google Cloud Security, helping organizations measure and strengthen their real-world cyber defense posture. Earlier in his career, he held senior leadership roles at Fortinet, OPAQ Networks, FourV Systems, and SRC, Inc., where he built and scaled cybersecurity products across both startups and large enterprises.
Over the past 20 years, Matt’s work has spanned applied R&D solving DARPA Grand Challenge problems to the development of commercial security platforms, including GreySpark risk analytics, Fortinet’s FortiSASE offering, and Mandiant Security Validation.
He is the author of four patents, including innovations in continuous cybersecurity risk analysis and the application of artificial intelligence and ontological reasoning to security risk assessment.