TechNet Cyber 2026

Alexander McFarland
Cloud Security Engineer, Hosting and Compute
Defense Information Systems Agency


Alex McFarland is currently the technical lead for Olympus at the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Hosting and Compute directorate. McFarland is a cloud and DevSecOps engineer with more than 20 years of IT experience, 19 of which have been within Department of Defense IT. Prior to his current role, he served as the technical lead for Vulcan, where he oversaw its technical design and implementation. Before joining HaC, he worked as a contractor, serving as principal architect and infrastructure team lead at the Defense Media Agency’s public web program and its precursors at Air Force News Agency and Naval Media Center. McFarland is a DevSecOps evangelist passionate about using culture and automation to drive organizational change.

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