About · The practice
One senior partner, not an agency
I’m Christopher Schmidt — a security and technology executive with 20+ years spanning offensive security, secure engineering, compliance, and technology leadership. TechJavelin is my practice, and the person you talk to is the person doing the work.
Most firms in this space sell you scale you don’t need and a bench of rotating juniors you never asked for. I built TechJavelin to be the opposite: a boutique, principal-led practice for teams that need enterprise-grade security judgment without the enterprise price, the enterprise timeline, or the enterprise runaround.
The market is designed for the Fortune 50 and the big international firms. That leaves startups, SMBs, aerospace and defense suppliers, education, and other regulated teams trying to detangle SOC 2, NIST 800-171, CMMC, and HIPAA with tooling and vendors built for someone ten times their size. My work is to make security fit your context — custom, pragmatic, and exactly where it’s needed. You shouldn’t have to buy the boat to use the oar.
Because the practice is senior-only, engagements are deliberately narrow. I don’t try to be everything to everyone. I take the work where my depth actually changes the outcome — offensive assurance, DevSecOps programs, risk and AI-exposure assessments, incident response, and fractional security and technology leadership.
Values
How I work
01 · Scalable
Fit-to-purpose, built to grow
Programs sized to where you are now, architected so they hold up as you scale — not a template bolted on and left to decay.
02 · Pragmatic
Risk-ranked, business-first
Findings and roadmaps ordered by real business impact, so you spend effort where it moves your posture, not where a scanner shouted loudest.
03 · Agile
Evidence over ceremony
Continuous, auditable evidence and tight feedback loops — security that keeps pace with how your team actually ships.
Engagements
How working together works
No calendars, no discovery-call gauntlet. A clear, async path from first contact to committed work.
- STEP-01
You send context, not a calendar invite
Start with the async intake form — your situation, scope, and timeline. It lands in my queue and I read every one personally.
- STEP-02
I scope it honestly
I come back by email with a fit assessment and a right-sized shape — project, assessment, retainer, or fractional — or an honest referral if I’m not the right partner.
- STEP-03
We agree on outcomes and evidence
Clear deliverables, cadence, and what audit-ready proof looks like at the end — before any work starts.
- STEP-04
I do the work — the same person throughout
Senior delivery from start to finish, with evidence-traceable findings and reporting your auditors and your board can both use.
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Send the context and I’ll come back to you personally by email — on your terms, not a booking widget’s.
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