Brian Ginsbach
Senior Engineer at CrowdStrike
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Ginsbach is a senior software engineer with 23+ years of experience designing, debugging, and shipping OS- and network-level software for high-performance environments. He has deep expertise in BSD/Linux/UNIX internals, TCP/IP and storage fabrics (SCSI, InfiniBand), and a history of contributing small but meaningful open-source utilities used across NetBSD, FreeBSD and macOS. At companies from Silicon Graphics and Cray to CrowdStrike, Brian has moved between customer-facing support, systems engineering, and core software development, consistently solving thorny interoperability and kernel-adjacent problems. Known for precise, cost-effective solutions and strong communication, he mentors teams while owning end-to-end SDLC responsibilities. He combines pragmatic system administration instincts with low-level programming in C, Go and C++—a mix that lets him spot and fix issues others miss. Based in Saint Paul, he continues to blend curiosity-driven learning with hands-on contributions to open source and enterprise products.
23 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Github Skills (36)
security-hardening10
unix10
vulnerability-scanners10
freebsd10
security-scanner10
testing10
linux10
openbsd10
security10
branches10
vulnerability-assessment10
security-vulnerability10
pci10
hipaa10
vulnerability-detection10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bginsbach/lynis
Aug 2017 - Jan 2021
Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional.
Contributions:35 pushes, 36 branches in 3 years 5 months
unixlynishipaainstallationcompliance
IIJ-NetBSD/netbsd-src
Jun 2004 - Dec 2022
this repository is unofficial mirror. automatically converted from anoncvs.NetBSD.org every two hours on weekdays (HEAD). On weekend, sync branches.
Contributions:259 commits in 18 years 10 months
branchessynclinuxheadfreebsd
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