Security engineering and narrative for organizations whose systems touch people who can't afford a leak.

I'm a security engineer, content strategist, and founder of Secure Pride — a privacy-first cybersecurity nonprofit for LGBTQ+ clinics, mutual aid orgs, and health services.

My work starts from three questions: who is this for, what can it see, and what happens when it fails them. If those questions matter to your team, we should talk.

Security engineeringInfrastructure systemsContent & narrative
Current work

What I'm working on

Security, infra, and narrative work with explicit human stakes.

Secure Pride

Active — nonprofit

Secure Pride exists because LGBTQ+ nonprofits, clinics, and mutual aid orgs handle data with real consequences — identity disclosures, health records, the coordinates of people living in hostile conditions — and almost none of them have adequate protection.

  • Designing certificate-based network authentication and device access paths sized for teams without dedicated IT.
  • Hardening workstations and cloud services that handle sensitive health and identity data.
  • Writing security playbooks and plain-language documentation that non-technical staff can actually follow.

Learn more at securepride.org

Context Synapse

Research — Swift

Context Synapse is a local-first context orchestration framework in Swift — a Bayesian system for managing what a model knows about you across time, without that data ever leaving your device. Research project and values statement, simultaneously.

  • Local-only state and context graphs to avoid cloud exfiltration of personal history.
  • Probabilistic modeling of long-term preferences and memory without centralizing raw data.
  • Interfaces for interrogating and correcting what the system thinks it knows about you.

Client work

Select engagements

Client work sits at the intersection of infrastructure and story. I partner with developer platforms, security-forward products, and mission-driven orgs whose systems touch sensitive data or communities poorly served by default frameworks.

  • Security architecture and threat modeling for a dev-tool startup building toward enterprise-grade controls on a startup budget — resulted in documented incident response paths and a revised access control model.
  • Narrative and positioning rebuild for a security-forward product whose public claims had drifted from its production behavior — aligned docs, security page, and sales copy to actual system architecture.
  • 50+ episodes of Clear as Mud at mudstack — technical interviews with engineers from Epic, Riot, Sony, and Meta VR; audience growth from zero to established developer media property.

Not a fit for: generic SEO content, compliance theater, or brand work without a technical foundation. If your system has real stakes, email is the right first step.

For availability, email hello@mazzeleczzare.com

How I think

From lab notes to infrastructure

I left a neuroscience lab after years of measuring cognitive decline in aged macaques — running behavioral tests, recording scores, eventually preparing their brains for post-mortem analysis. The work produced clean numbers. The numbers became figures in papers. At some point, the distance between the data and the animals stopped being something I could live with.

Everything since has been an attempt to work where the stakes are explicit and the humans are not an afterthought. Secure Pride, Context Synapse, and the systems I write about all start from the same questions: who is this for, what can it see, and what happens when it fails them?

Background

Where I've worked and learned

Cognitive neuroscience and quantitative psychology at UC Davis — EEG/ERP, eye tracking, and representational similarity analysis in the Luck Lab. That work didn't pull me toward writing; it sharpened how I think about noisy systems, experimental design, and the gap between statistically significant and actually meaningful.

Before Secure Pride: content lead at mudstack, over fifty episodes of Clear as Mud with guests from Epic, Riot, Sony, and Meta VR, and growth work at Tennis 919. Alongside that, a long-running habit of building lab infrastructure and open-source tools for my own work.

Work with me

How we might collaborate

Currently open to

Security and infrastructure consulting for small teams, narrative and content strategy for developer tools, and collaborations with organizations whose systems touch vulnerable communities or sensitive data.

Security Architecture Sprint

2–6 weeks. Threat modeling, control design, and incident runbooks for one critical system. Best for: small teams pre-SOC2, post-incident, or building something that touches sensitive identity or health data.

Narrative + Documentation

Ongoing or project-based. Positioning, technical docs, and security pages that reflect how your system actually behaves. Best for: infra and security products whose copy has drifted from their architecture.

Ongoing Advisory

Quarterly or monthly. Infra review, content audit, and AI governance check-in with an explicit human-risk lens. Best for: orgs that need a security + narrative voice without a full-time hire.

Email — hello@mazzeleczzare.comSecurity inquiriesGitHubLinkedIn

This site runs on Cipher Gothic → — a design language for systems made intimate.