Chime lately welcomed Darragh Whelan as VP of Threat & Help Engineering to supervise the engineering perform for threat and member providers. Darragh will lead engineering round our decisioning platform. The platform protects Chime’s enterprise and member base, in addition to our member providers and id administration providers. His speedy priorities are to convey these historically separated features collectively to fight fraud and create a safer Chime for everybody.
Throughout his time at Mastercard, Darragh helped construct Security Internet and Determination Intelligence, the corporate’s platforms that shield towards fraud and cyber hacking of banks and processors. Following the launch of Security Internet, Darragh grew to become the answer supervisor and technical driver for the product. Throughout his many initiatives, he contributed to stopping catastrophic fraud and dangerous actors contributing to drug and human trafficking. Because of his work, tens of billions of {dollars} had been stopped from transferring via the palms of dangerous actors. His contributions to Security Internet led to the platform, and Mastercard’s CIO, profitable the Forbes CIO Innovation Award.
“I’ve been lucky sufficient to have an affect that does good for the world, and I’m excited to use the information I’ve acquired all through my profession to an organization that’s actually a drive for good. As an immigrant to the U.S., I’m conversant in a number of the struggles our members face and hope that via my work right here, Chime will higher shield and serve them.”
– Darragh Whelan
Welcome to the group, Darragh!
