Chime just lately welcomed Darragh Whelan as VP of Threat & Assist Engineering to supervise the engineering perform for threat and member companies. Darragh will lead engineering round our decisioning platform. The platform protects Chime’s enterprise and member base, in addition to our member companies and id administration companies. His quick priorities are to convey these historically separated features collectively to fight fraud and create a safer Chime for everybody.
Throughout his time at Mastercard, Darragh helped construct Security Internet and Resolution Intelligence, the corporate’s platforms that defend towards fraud and cyber hacking of banks and processors. Following the launch of Security Internet, Darragh turned the answer supervisor and technical driver for the product. Throughout his many initiatives, he contributed to stopping catastrophic fraud and unhealthy actors contributing to drug and human trafficking. Because of his work, tens of billions of {dollars} have been stopped from shifting by the palms of unhealthy actors. His contributions to Security Internet led to the platform, and Mastercard’s CIO, profitable the Forbes CIO Innovation Award.
“I’ve been lucky sufficient to have an affect that does good for the world, and I’m excited to use the information I’ve acquired all through my profession to an organization that’s really a power for good. As an immigrant to the U.S., I’m accustomed to among the struggles our members face and hope that by my work right here, Chime will higher defend and serve them.”
– Darragh Whelan
Welcome to the staff, Darragh!