Chris Pedigo

Chris Pedigo is the Sales Engineer Lead at Native, where he brings more than 20 years of experience leading global technical presales teams and driving go-to-market strategy for cloud and AI/ML security solutions. His career spans roles across enterprise SaaS, managed services, and cloud-native security. At Lacework, he built and scaled global Sales Engineering and Office of the CTO teams that influenced more than 35% of ARR. At Zilla Security, he served as Field CTO, focused on automating user access review processes ahead of the company's acquisition by CyberArk. Most recently at Axonius, he led multiple SE teams across Strategic, Enterprise, SLED, Channel, and Inside Sales. Chris began his technology career as a QA Test Engineer at Creative Labs after earning his BA in Philosophy from UCLA, and is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect with deep expertise in compliance frameworks including SOC 2, PCI-DSS, NIST 800-53, and ISO 27001. He writes on enterprise cloud security adoption, technical GTM strategy, and the operational realities of scaling security solutions in complex, regulated environments.