Derrick Gibson

Derrick Gibson is a seasoned Senior Information Security Engineer with extensive experience at Mastercard since June 2011, specializing in PKI Engineering and KMS. Responsibilities include reviewing and approving certificate requests, troubleshooting certificate issues, generating and deploying keys across various platforms, and leading the integration of the Venafi certificate management tool. Prior to this role, Derrick served as an Engineer in Software Engineering for Global File Transfer at Mastercard, where project leadership involved onboarding applications and providing technical support for file transfer issues. Derrick's career began as a Network Level Test Summer Intern at Alcatel-Lucent, gaining foundational experience in telecommunications. Derrick holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Jackson State University and is actively involved in the professional organization “Lifting Employees of African Descent.”