Denise Mccoy
Senior Security Engineering Manager at Slack
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDenise Mccoy is a Senior Security Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience building resilient, secure engineering organizations and shipping security-critical backend systems. Currently leading software security teams at Slack, she owns authorization, authentication, and cryptography domains while driving a security-first culture, incident response, and developer productivity. Denise has scaled and mentored cross-functional teams across Grafana Labs, Splunk, Walmart Global Tech, and Fastly, blending hands-on security tooling knowledge (DAST/SAST, WAF, CI/CD, Terraform) with people-first management. She pairs a technical foundation in software engineering and security certifications from SANS with uncommon roots in music education, which inform her collaborative, performance-oriented leadership style.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music Performance - Vocal, Bachelor of Music Performance - Vocal at Montclair State UniversityGIAC - GSEC Infomation Security, GIAC - GSEC Infomation Security at SANS Technology InstituteGraduate Music Education/ Music, Graduate Music Education/ Music at University of Colorado BoulderSoftware Engineering Certification, Software Engineering Certification at Galvanize - Boulder, West Pearl
Italian, French, German, Latin, Russian
Github Skills (31)
grafana9
rum9
backend9
telemetry8
sdk8
data-infrastructure7
full-stack7
browser7
frontend6
infrastructure6
monitoring6
agent5
observability4
fastly3
prometheus3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LittleLadySunshine/resumeWorking
Feb 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
LittleLadySunshine/blogexercise
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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