Grant Birkinbine
Senior Security Engineer at GitHub
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGrant Birkinbine is a Senior Security Engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of hands-on experience securing cloud infrastructure, access controls, and automated delivery pipelines. Currently at GitHub (and noted on GitHub as having worked with OpenAI and Nordstrom), he focuses on edge security, infrastructure automation, and resilient CI/CD workflows that bridge developer velocity and risk reduction. He contributed DevOps automation to the Ersilia AI model hub—writing metadata management and retry-capable CI scripts that demonstrate practical GitHub API and Python automation experience for scientific ML workflows. Grant pairs formal cybersecurity training with continuous self-directed learning and peer collaboration, and he brings a maker’s mindset: building systems and intentionally probing them to improve defenses.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Cybersecurity, Certificate in Cybersecurity at University of Washington
English
Github Skills (9)
github-api10
python10
cicd10
open-source9
hub8
dockers5
machine-learning5
docker5
drug-discovery4
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
ersilia-os/ersilia
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
The Ersilia Model Hub, a repository of AI/ML models for infectious and neglected disease research.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 54 commits, 15 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Grant primarily focused on creating and improving the CI/CD pipeline for the repository. This involved writing a Python script, update_metadata.py, to manage the repository's metadata, specifically the metadata.json file. The commits show the development of a script to load, populate and commit metadata, followed by improvements including retry logic. The user demonstrated practical experience with the GitHub API and environment variables.
ml-modelsneglected-tropical-diseasepythonai-mldrug-discovery
GrantBirki/terratrash
Aug 2023 - Feb 2025
A Ruby gem to discard (trash) unwanted Terraform output for humans
Contributions:19 reviews, 32 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year 7 months
gemrubysanitizerterraform
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