Grant Joy
Co-Founder & CTO at Herd Security
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolGrant Joy is a seasoned software leader and Co-Founder & CTO based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience building secure, scalable systems across startups and growth-stage companies. He has deep operational and backend expertise from roles at Panther, Wisetack, and Imperva, and now focuses on making security accessible and engaging for organizations through Herd. Grant blends hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership—raising awareness, hardening protections, and creating experiences that help users "fall in love" with cybersecurity. He’s comfortable operating across infrastructure, DevOps, and backend domains, and has a track record of attracting top-tier investors and partners to support his ventures. Trained in computer science at Sonoma State University, he brings pragmatic engineering discipline paired with a founder’s appetite for creating lasting security culture change.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Sonoma State University
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Github Skills (98)
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Github contributions (5)
distil/cfssl
Mar 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 7 months
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grantjoy/code-challenges
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:1 commit, 1 PR, 53 pushes in 1 day
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