# Jon Torrez > Jon Torrez is an American technology executive and co-founder and COO of Subnet345. At McAfee he built the cloud behind Global Threat Intelligence. Official site: https://www.jontorrez.com/ ## About Jon Torrez is an American technology executive, cloud and cybersecurity infrastructure architect, and co-founder and COO of Subnet345, which builds Plexus: software that records AI agents' instrumented actions, attributed and tamper-evident, inside the customer's own environment. He has spent his career inside security vendors, including McAfee, Intel and Cisco, arguing for architecture over the next point product. At McAfee he built and ran the global cloud behind McAfee Global Threat Intelligence, a real-time service answering billions of queries a day. He is a named co-inventor on two U.S. patents in network traffic prioritization. ## Beyond work Jon was born and raised in Texas and grew up in Abernathy, outside Lubbock, the city where the hacker collective Cult of the Dead Cow began (806 represent). He built his early career and professional life in Atlanta and today lives in Illinois. He was born with albinism, and with it the low vision that leaves him legally blind. He has traveled to more than 80 places across 19 countries and four continents, and he is a guitarist who has studied under world-class players, among them Mike Martin, Christopher Parkening and Barry Richman. ## Career - Co-founder & COO, Subnet345, 2026 to present: Co-founded Subnet345 with Jeff Singleton and Jeff Hewgley. The company builds Plexus by Subnet345: software you run in your own environment to coordinate AI agents and keep an attributed, tamper-evident record of their instrumented actions. - Independent Technology Consultant, November 2021 to April 2026: Consulting engagements focused on automated infrastructure delivery, AI-enabled platform strategy, private AI infrastructure, and executive technology advisory. - IaaS Architect, Entrust, January 2021 to October 2021: Led a datacenter modernization initiative centered on software-defined infrastructure, consolidating storage, compute, and network capabilities into a scalable private cloud model. - Principal Architect, Business Technology Architects (BTA), May 2015 to April 2017; January 2018 to August 2020: Led global transformation programs in datacenter, network, and security architecture for enterprise, military and government clients. - Solutions Consultant II, Cisco Systems, Inc., January 2013 to October 2013: Served on Cisco's Datacenter Services Operational Enablement team, focused on optimizing day-2 operations for customers' datacenter investments. - Senior Manager, Global Threat Intelligence Architecture, McAfee (An Intel Company), October 2010 to May 2012: Led architecture, engineering, and operations across customer-facing and backend environments supporting McAfee's Global Threat Intelligence capabilities. - Manager, Network Architecture, McAfee, Inc., July 2009 to October 2010: Led the team responsible for architecture and operations of McAfee's public cloud-based SaaS network infrastructure supporting enterprise and consumer security services. - Principal Network Engineer, Secure Computing, February 2008 to June 2009: Led network engineering efforts that helped form the foundation of McAfee's public cloud security infrastructure following the acquisition. ## Patents Named co-inventor on two U.S. patents: - U.S. Patent 8,589,503, Prioritizing Network Traffic: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8589503B2 - U.S. Patent 8,606,910, Prioritizing Network Traffic: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8606910B2 ## Selected projects - spectra (https://github.com/jrtorrez31337/spectra): Authored and published spectra, an open-source TCP/IP stack behavioral analysis tool for firewall and security evaluation, implemented in C and Python. - World Monitor (https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor): Contributed production code and infrastructure improvements to World Monitor, an open-source real-time global intelligence dashboard, across self-hosting infrastructure, data-correlation workflows, surveillance-layer integrations, and advisory-scoring capabilities. ## Writing - [A Manager Is Not a Bystander](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/manager-bystander-jon-torrez-ippac), September 25, 2026 - [Meta Should Buy Hugging Face](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/meta-should-buy-hugging-face-jon-torrez-rrncc), August 24, 2026 - [“Us as Well”-ism: The AI Industry Is Marketing Its Security Failures](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/us-well-ism-ai-industry-marketing-its-security-failures-jon-torrez-pdeqf), August 6, 2026 - [The 95% has a cause MIT did not name](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/95-has-cause-mit-did-name-jon-torrez-hqeee), June 3, 2026 - [AI NPCs Need Architecture, Not Just Model Calls](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-npcs-need-architecture-just-model-calls-jon-torrez-m7lzc), May 14, 2026 - [When Agents Do Not Get To Vote](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-agents-do-get-vote-jon-torrez-tke3c), May 13, 2026 - [Can The Agent Wake Up?](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-agent-wake-up-jon-torrez-wkfxc), May 11, 2026 - [The State Agents Should Publish](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/state-agents-should-publish-jon-torrez-0hrbc), May 8, 2026 - [Yaklog: A coordination Memory for Agent Swarms](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/yaklog-coordination-memory-agent-swarms-jon-torrez-hdlde), April 29, 2026 - [Does AI have a Unit Economics problem?](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/does-ai-have-unit-economics-problem-jon-torrez-l9pef), March 24, 2026 ## Education - LBJ High School, Austin, Texas. He went to LBJ when it housed Austin's Science Academy. Several of his classmates from its computer club are now industry leaders. ## Contact and profiles - Email: gmail@jontorrez.com - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jontorrez - https://github.com/jrtorrez31337 - https://www.facebook.com/jtorrez - https://www.instagram.com/jtorrez31337/