Dan Cinnamon
Distinguished Security Advisor, Global Office Of The Field CTO at Okta
Chanhassen, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolDan Cinnamon is a Distinguished Security Advisor with 12+ years steering identity and access management programs for large enterprises, now advising globally from Okta’s Field CTO office. He combines deep hands-on expertise across cloud authentication, Active Directory, SAP security, and diverse development languages (.NET, ABAP, SQL, Linux) to translate complex security requirements into practical, auditable solutions. Dan’s trajectory from applications analyst at General Mills to senior architecture and sales-engineering roles at RSA and Okta reflects a rare mix of technical depth and customer-facing strategy. Based in Minnesota, he’s known for modernizing identity estates at scale and for bridging legacy systems like SAP and AD with modern cloud-native authentication. An electrical and computer engineering and computer science double-major, he brings systems thinking and engineering rigor to security architecture decisions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS- Electrical and Computer Engineering BS- Computer Science, BS- Electrical and Computer Engineering BS- Computer Science at University of Minnesota Duluth
Github Skills (29)
python10
alarm10
mqtt10
internet-of-things10
garden10
asyncio10
iot10
automation10
privacy10
jekyll10
home-assistant10
honeywell10
raspberry-pi10
home-automation10
documentation10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Cinntax/pulsematrix-client
Jun 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 2 pushes in 8 months
ufodone/pyenvisalink
Sep 2015 - Sep 2020
Envisalink 2DS/3 Alarm API for Honeywell or Ademco Vista Security Systems
Contributions:5 reviews, 51 commits, 17 PRs in 5 years 1 month
security-systemsapialarm-apisecurityhoneywell
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