Full Name
Alex Maestretti
Job Title
Chief Information Security Officer
Company
Remitly
Speaker Bio
Alex Maestretti is the Chief Information Security Officer at Remitly – a digital financial services provider for immigrants and their families – where he has led Security Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), Protect (Security Engineering, Application and Product Security, etc), and Detect and Respond for over three years. Alex led the Remitly security team in playing a key role in the company’s IPO in 2021, orchestrating several complex technical projects, and reducing risk over his tenure.

Before joining Remitly, Alex led Security Detection and Response as an Engineering Manager at Netflix. He also held roles at Apple and the NSA, where he had a government fellowship for his graduate work in Information Security. Alex holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Engineering and a Master of Science (MS) in Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. He resides in his home city and the global headquarters of Remitly in Seattle, Washington.
Alex Maestretti