Chris Byron
Director Of Engineering, Security And Infrastructure at Front
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Byron is a Director of Engineering focused on security and infrastructure with a decade of experience building and leading product security, identity, and infrastructure teams for SaaS companies in the Bay Area. Trained as a backend developer, he has shifted into leadership roles that bridge engineering and infosec, running cross-functional security programs at Front, MuleSoft, Envoy, and Box. He’s led teams responsible for vulnerability eradication, penetration testing, and securing large-scale enterprise stacks while shaping company policy and technical strategy. Comfortable both in hands-on engineering and executive decision-making, he brings practical security engineering discipline to platform and product teams. Based in San Francisco and grounded in a Computer Science degree from Harvey Mudd, he combines deep technical roots with proven organizational influence. An understated strength is his track record of aligning security priorities with product delivery, keeping risk mitigation pragmatic and developer-friendly.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College
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Github Skills (39)
azure10
microsoft9
authentication9
terraform9
terraform-provider9
microsoft-azure9
aws9
duo-security9
jenkins8
jenkins-pipeline8
terraform-module8
regular-intervals8
jenkins-plugin8
jenkins-api-plugin8
handlebars7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
envoy/auto-spf-flattener
May 2016 - Aug 2018
Given a desired SPF record, flatten it and push it to your DNS provider on regular intervals
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 2 months
pushproviderregular-intervalsdnsregular
lordbyron/oauth2-auth-cli
Apr 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 release, 3 commits, 1 PR in 4 years
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