I'm Josh Klosterman, a technology leader who helps organizations get things done. Whatever the title, the job has been the same: keep a company aligned with where the industry is heading, and clear the path so its teams can move fast without breaking the things that matter.

That has looked like a lot of things over the years: standing up employee-choice programs, driving AI adoption, CI/CD deployments, DevSecOps programs, and more. But the throughline is competitiveness. When a business needs to adopt what's next without slowing down or losing control, that's the work I'm there for.

A good stretch of that path runs through security, where I've spent much of my career. Before FireRok I led IT and enterprise AI adoption at HealthEquity, driving Zero Trust and passwordless for tens of thousands of users in a regulated environment, and I spent years before that in identity and endpoint architecture at Experian. Along the way I've led internal investigations, built out security team tooling and process, and run org-wide rollouts across MFA, vulnerability scanning, Cloudflare threat defense, Microsoft CASB and Defender, and Jamf Protect. I stay close to the field, too, as an intermittent DEF CON attendee with stops at Black Hat conferences.

Today I'm the founder of FireRok, a technology studio in Arizona. We build infrastructure that proves itself: developer and platform tools that earn trust with evidence, not promises. Our first product, Salvage, restores your backup into a throwaway database, asserts the data is really there and usable, and emits a signed pass/fail verdict, the restore test most backup tools refuse to run. More are in progress, held to the same bar every time: production-grade, evidence-first, no hand-waving.

Alongside FireRok, I take on a small number of engagements each year. Right now I'm helping teams ship fast on a six-week, AI-assisted SDLC. Turning sprints (2 weeks) into bolts (2 days).

Feel free to reach me at josh@firerok.ai or connect on LinkedIn. If you prefer PGP encrypted email, you can find my public key here.