Andrew Dayton is a Field CTO at BlinkOps with nearly 20 years across military operations, public sector, Fortune-50 enterprises, and AI startups. He served as an Army Signal Corps Staff Sergeant before moving into security and data work in the private sector. At Splunk, he spent eight years on complex security architecture, detection and response engineering, customer strategy, and internal AI model testing. More recently, he's worked on the front lines of AI SOC and emerging trends across cybersecurity, risk management, and compliance.