Evan Powell

I’m the co-founder and CEO of DeepTempo, where we’re rethinking cybersecurity by using deep learning and behavior-based detection to help defenders move faster, reduce alert fatigue, and stay ahead of modern threats. My career has been centered on building companies that transform technical operations, from cloud-native platforms and chaos engineering to event-driven SecOps. Previously, I co-founded StackStorm (acquired by Brocade), which helped pioneer automation long before SOAR went mainstream. I’ve always been drawn to places where technology meets real-world complexity, and where teams need tools that actually work at scale. I’ve helped create several open-source projects that laid the groundwork for what we’re doing at DeepTempo: bringing real-world engineering into the next era of cybersecurity. Today, we’ve built the first transformer-based log language models (LogLMs) trained on large-scale network telemetry. These models continuously learn and adapt to polymorphic threats in real time, surfacing high-confidence signals with deep behavioral context. I believe the future of security looks more like the world of data engineering; modular, scalable, and built to make sense of huge volumes of fast-moving data. Security teams don’t need more dashboards or vague AI claims. They need systems that understand their infrastructure and help them respond with clarity and speed. This approach allows teams to solve the real cause of many of the problems we face in cybersecurity today, especially when it comes to SOC burnout, threat actor adaptation, and the widening gap between traditional tools and modern attack surfaces. Let’s connect if you’re thinking about what’s next in threat detection, AI in security, or building resilient security operations.