Summary
Grant Dobbe is a senior research engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building security-focused tooling, audits, and automation for enterprise customers. Based in Bellingham, WA, he has driven measurable improvements—cutting audit development time by 30%, reducing escalations and outages, and expanding audit coverage to platforms like Kubernetes, Oracle Container Databases, and VMware ESXi. He combines deep compliance knowledge (CIS, DISA, NIST 800-53, PCI DSS) with practical scripting and tooling in Python, Bash, and PowerShell to automate test environments and customer workflows. Grant also contributes to community benchmarks and has a track record of turning customer support insights into process and code improvements. Uncommonly for an engineer with his profile, his background in music composition signals a creative, systems-oriented mindset that shows up in elegant automation and documentation.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Music Composition and Theory, Computer Science, BA, Music Composition and Theory, Computer Science at St. Olaf College