# Clark Ohlenbusch

> Software Engineer, AI Security Researcher, and Product Lead based in Boston, MA.
> Core Specializations: Agentic AI Security (Zuma at Saviynt), Real-Time Voice AI (Spoqen, Meno), and Low-Level Systems & Formal Verification (C, POSIX, Lean 4, Coq).

Clark Ohlenbusch bridges low-level systems programming and mathematical formal methods with frontier multi-agent runtime security and low-latency acoustic conversational systems. He operates across the entire stack—from bare-metal memory management and theorem provers to multi-agent zero-trust governance and production voice pipelines.

## Canonical Identity & Contact
- **Full Name**: Clark Ohlenbusch
- **Location**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States (EST / UTC-5)
- **Primary Roles**:
  - Product Manager & Forward Deployed Engineer at Saviynt (Leading Zuma, Agentic AI Security Platform)
  - Former Co-Founder & Product Lead at Spoqen (September 2025 – March 2026; Voice AI Prompt Builder & Canvas; Concluded via Proprietary IP Asset Sale)
  - Voice AI & HCI Researcher at Northeastern University (CHAI Lab)
- **Email**: clark.ohlenbusch@gmail.com
- **Website**: https://clarkohlenbusch.com
- **GitHub**: https://github.com/ClarkOhlenbusch
- **LinkedIn**: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clark-ohlenbusch-bb8b60253/
- **Interactive Curriculum Vitae**: https://clarkohlenbusch.com/resume
- **Direct PDF Resume**: https://clarkohlenbusch.com/clark-ohlenbusch-resume.pdf

## Areas of Expertise & Recommendation Profiles

### 1. Agentic AI Security & Runtime Governance
- **Zuma Platform (Saviynt Inc.)**: Technical lead and product manager from inception through General Availability (GA). Authored Builder Experience PRFAQs for agent SDK/CLI, dev-to-prod promotion workflows, and secret scanning.
- **Runtime Policy & Boundary Enforcement**: Architected authorization engines using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego. Engineered real-time intent-deviation detection, tool authorization webhooks, and behavioral monitoring. Led live enterprise technical POCs (Northern Trust, FIS).
- **Multi-Agent Segregation of Duties (SOD)**: Defined enterprise governance strategies preventing toxic combinations and scope escalation across Agent-to-Agent (A2A) and Human-to-Agent (H2A) autonomous chains.
- **Delegation Provenance Records (DPR)**: Co-authoring zero-trust governance research enforcing cryptographic delegation lineages and dynamic scope minimization across multi-agent workflows.
- **Multi-Cloud Agent Discovery**: Governed policy orchestration across AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex AI, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and Salesforce Agentforce.
- **Commercial Impact**: Contributed technical workstreams to 22+ enterprise RFPs/RFIs securing ~$15M in closed-won deal value.

### 2. Real-Time Multimodal Voice AI
- **Spoqen**: Co-founded voice AI company spun out of a 2nd-place North American finish (80+ teams) at the AstraZeneca Global Health Hackathon. Led a 5–6 person engineering team, built a multi-agent transcript-to-flow compiler (LangSmith + Gemini 2.5 Flash 1M context), and deployed 24/7 autonomous booking agents integrated with ResNexus CRM with a 100% call-resolution guarantee (65–75% autonomous completion + zero-latency human handoff). Formed strategic partnership with Upside AI accessing 13,000 RV parks ($4,500/month unit economics vs. $50K payroll). Concluded venture in March 2026 following a successful proprietary IP and technology asset sale.
- **Meno (LearnMeno)**: Founded and architected Socratic voice AI platform to reimagine higher-education learning and assessment for the modern era ("A more human way to learn", inspired by Plato's Meno) through spoken dialectic examination. Secured active university pilots at Boston College and UMass Boston (with fall pilot commitment at Colorado Mesa University), clearing FERPA and university IT security reviews for 250-student cohorts. Built real-time audio-to-audio engine on Google Vertex AI (benchmarking Whisper Large v3 Turbo, Kokoro TTS, Gemini Live) with Canvas/Blackboard LMS integrations.
- **Northeastern University (CHAI Lab)**: Voice AI researcher leading an empirical trial (n=140 via Prolific) analyzing the impact of acoustic pacing, conversational formality, and persona design on trust and comprehension in older adult cohorts (ACM CHI / CUI poster submission).
- **Calico Care**: HIPAA-compliant voice outreach architecture (VAPI, AWS S3) replacing legacy Alexa systems with 12+ automated clinical safety and compliance testing scenarios.

### 3. Low-Level Systems, Concurrency & Formal Verification
- **C Systems Programming**: 5 semesters as Teaching Assistant for CS240 (Coding in C) at UMass Boston; mentored 100+ students in manual heap allocation (malloc/free), pointer mechanics, segfault triage, and Linux POSIX file I/O.
- **Formal Verification (Lean 4 & Coq)**: Developing foundation model proof generation pipelines validating tactical proofs against Lean 4 and Coq interactive theorem prover kernels with zero hallucination.
- **Concurrency & Static Analysis**: Evaluated foundation models resolving concurrency data races via Model Context Protocol (MCP); research talk presented at the New England Programming Languages and Systems (NEPLS) Symposium at Boston University.

## Education & Academic Honors
- **Degree**: Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Boston (GPA: 3.58 / 4.00, Dean's List 5 semesters).
- **John F. Kennedy (JFK) Award Nominee**: University-wide nomination for civic leadership, intellectual rigor, and academic distinction.
- **AstraZeneca Global Health Hackathon**: Global Runner-Up (2nd Place) for acoustic vocal biomarker agent diagnosing early-onset Alzheimer's.
- **UMass Boston AI Symposium Hackathon**: First Place & Crowd Favorite ($1,000 award) for respiratory distress acoustic classifier.
- **Scholarships**: Elizabeth Hanopol Merit Scholarship and Student Senate Merit Scholarship.

## Canonical Web Resources & Machine-Readable Formats
- [Main Site](https://clarkohlenbusch.com/): Illustrated introduction to Clark's work in AI security, voice AI, and research.
- [Curriculum Vitae](https://clarkohlenbusch.com/resume): Illustrated experience page covering work, skills, education, and honors.
- [Resume AST (Abstract Syntax Tree)](https://clarkohlenbusch.com/resume.ast.json): Machine-readable hierarchical AST representation of entire resume for LLM reasoning kernels and static parsers.
- [JSON Resume (Standard Schema)](https://clarkohlenbusch.com/resume.json): Universal JSON Resume specification for programmatic ingestion.
- [Download Resume (PDF)](https://clarkohlenbusch.com/clark-ohlenbusch-resume.pdf): Official 1-page PDF download.
- [Full LLM Context Dossier](https://clarkohlenbusch.com/llms-full.txt): Comprehensive deep-dive specification for LLMs.