Summary
Gunnar Engelbach is a Software, HPC, and Cloud SME with over 30 years in engineering and a decade focused on enterprise and research-scale IT solutions. He combines deep expertise in network security, vulnerability management, and information assurance with practical experience architecting hybrid HPC and serverless AWS environments for scientific research. Gunnar has led product architecture and standards work—helping bring the first commercial OVAL/SCAP-validated security product to market and collaborating with NIST and IETF on security standards—while also professionalizing development and DevOps practices at startups. Known for applying Human Factors Engineering, he excels at turning complex datasets into understandable, usable systems that improve operational decision-making. Based in southern Oregon, he pairs hands-on technical leadership with mentorship and a pragmatic approach to automation and SOPs that helps bridge research needs and enterprise governance.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Southern Oregon University