Alex Bires
Senior Product Security Engineer at iHerb
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Bires is a Senior Product Security Engineer with 12 years of experience building pragmatic security controls and driving measurable risk reduction across large-scale cloud and product environments. Based in Atlanta, he has led company-wide programs—from resurrecting a secrets-scanning and rotation workflow that eliminated 176 hardcoded secrets to restoring bot management telemetry via Cloudflare Workers—while embedding repeatable policy and pipeline controls using Rego and CI artifacts. His background spans high-regulation AWS GovCloud work, automating security checks and threat models at Salesforce and Medallia, and hands-on engineering improvements at Stripe that saved hundreds of terabytes of network traffic. Comfortable partnering directly with engineering leadership, Alex combines consulting-era breadth with deep product security ownership and a track record of turning audits and PoVs into production-safe, automated controls.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyColumbus State
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Github Skills (10)
merlin7
agent7
golang6
security5
cross-platform4
etsy-api2
scraper1
python1
api1
etsy1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alexbires/phiast
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
alexbires/phpAnalysis
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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