Summary
Adam Baldwin is a security-focused leader and founder with over a decade of experience building teams, products, and companies across application security, red teaming, and supply-chain protection. He has led high-impact programs at Okta and Auth0 running assume-breach simulations, scaled security at npm (later acquired by GitHub), and briefly served as a product manager for supply chain malware detection at GitHub. Adam pioneered practical techniques like BlindXSS and remote repository pillaging, authored SECURITY.md, and helped create tooling and processes that influenced npm audit and JavaScript ecosystem security. He combines hands-on offensive research and tool development with executive experience in founding and selling startups, running consultancy engagements, and hiring and scaling security teams. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he continues to found and advise security ventures while leading enterprise security functions. Notably, his work helped move DevSecOps supply-chain security from niche research into widely adopted operational tooling.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Technology, BS Information Technology at University of Phoenix
English