# Damien Lewke

> Damien Lewke is the Boston-based founder and CEO of Nebulock, a cybersecurity company focused on autonomous threat hunting and contextual security analytics. His career spans Northrop Grumman, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks in Australia, MIT graduate research, and Arctic Wolf. A former footballer in Germany, he also writes the cybersecurity newsletter ABC by D.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Nebulock
- **Organizations:** Nebulock, Arctic Wolf, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Northrop Grumman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **From:** Greenwich, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor’s degree, Economics (Math Econ), University of California, Los Angeles, Master of Science, Systems Engineering, Loyola Marymount University, Master of Science, Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Founded Nebulock in 2024., Completed MIT’s MS in Engineering and Management in 2023., Authored the MIT research work The MIT-IBM CloudSec 16: A Cloud Cybersecurity Benchmarking Framework, issued June 2023.

## Career timeline

- **2015–2017** — Systems engineer at Northrop Grumman, following an engineering and supply-chain rotation.
- **2017–2019** — Worked in product marketing and solutions architecture at CrowdStrike; built integrations engineering through its IPO.
- **2019–2021** — Worked in enterprise systems engineering at Palo Alto Networks in Sydney, Australia.
- **2021–2023** — Graduate study and research at MIT; completed an MS in Engineering and Management.
- **2023–2024** — Director of Product Management at Arctic Wolf Labs, working across AI detections, intelligence, and security research.
- **2024** — Founded Nebulock; conducted 90 prospective-customer interviews in 90 days before coding.
- **2025-07** — Nebulock emerged from stealth and announced $8.5 million in total funding, including a $6 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures.
- **2026-06** — Nebulock announced a $25 million Series A led by FirstMark.

## Achievements

- Founded Nebulock in 2024.
- Completed MIT’s MS in Engineering and Management in 2023.
- Authored the MIT research work The MIT-IBM CloudSec 16: A Cloud Cybersecurity Benchmarking Framework, issued June 2023.
- Led Nebulock through its 2025 public launch and June 2026 Series A; these are company financing milestones.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Appeared on RiskReversal Pod with Dan Nathan on October 21 to discuss AI, cybersecurity, and Nebulock’s hunt-first approach.
- **2026-08** — Appeared on The High Flyers Podcast on August 19 and the Cloud Security Podcast on August 25.
- **2026-07** — Discussed Nebulock’s development on Code and Cobblestones, published July 23, and published Open Weights, Open Season on July 20.
- **2026-06** — Announced Nebulock’s $25 million Series A on June 25. At that date the company reported more than 300 million agentic investigations and over 4,000 high-confidence findings.

## Links

- Website: https://abcbyd.substack.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damienlewke/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/abcbyDamien

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Last updated: 2026-10-25