CURRENTLY: BUILDING SECURITY & DNS INFRASTRUCTURE
EST. 2011/FLORIDA → CALIFORNIA → TEXAS/USMC VET | USA
Tony Perez  //  Founder · Operator · Veteran

I build tools that make the internet safer, and harder to break.

Enlisted Marine turned security entrepreneur. Twenty-five years in infrastructure and security. Co-founded Sucuri (sold to GoDaddy in 2017), now building CleanBrowsing, NOC, Trunc, and DNS Archive.

DNS SecurityInfrastructureBootstrappingThreat Intel
25yrsin security & infrastructure
5companies founded & led
1exit: Sucuri to GoDaddy
M+sites & networks protected
01 · What I'm building

The current lineup.

Tools built to solve our own problems first, then everyone else's.

All projects
02 · What I write

Notes from the field.

Security, business, and the occasional opinion you didn't ask for.

All writing
03 · Off the clock

I do hard things on purpose.

Complacency scares me. Maybe it's the ADD, but I've never been wired to wait for someone else to make things happen.

01

Marine Corps

Two tours in Iraq, '02–'05. Crossed the Line of Departure on day one of the invasion.

02

Brown Belt, BJJ

Carlson Gracie lineage. Don't get on the mat as much as I'd like these days.

03

Coach

CrossFit L2, USA Weightlifting L1, Gymnastics L1. Picked up the barbell in 2021.

04

Off-Road

Rock crawling and desert racing. Started DDOS Racing in 2018 to chase it.

05

U.S. Army Reserve

Captain (O-3), Civil Affairs & PsyOps Command (Airborne). Still serving.

06

Dad ×3

The hardest, most important thing on this list. Everything else is training.

Let's talk

Building something hard?
I like hard problems.

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