Joe Aguirre
VP, Cybersecurity Engineering at Lincoln Financial Group
El Paso, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Aguirre is a seasoned cybersecurity engineering leader with 13 years of progressive experience at Lincoln Financial Group, now serving as VP of Cybersecurity Engineering. He combines deep technical hands-on expertise—spanning application security, cloud security, identity engineering, and security operations—with a proven track record of building scalable, high-performance teams and automation pipelines. Joe designed and operated enterprise application security programs, multi-account AWS security architectures, and identity management frameworks that support both DevOps and traditional delivery models. He has scaled security functions to deploy and manage broad portfolios of technologies (DLP, EDR, IPS, MFA, WAF and custom APIs) while driving modern development practices like agile and CI/CD. Based in El Paso and grounded in an MS and BS in security disciplines from DePaul, he brings both academic rigor and long-term institutional knowledge that few leaders retain across a single large enterprise. An underrated strength is his ability to translate complex security architectures into operational teams and repeatable processes that enable rapid, auditable delivery.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Information Assurance and Security Engineering, B.S., Information Assurance and Security Engineering at DePaul University
Spanish
Github Skills (7)
duo-security9
api8
authentication8
api-security8
syslog7
security7
administrator7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
libresec/duo-log-grabber
Jan 2014 - Aug 2016
Grabs the administrator and authentication logs from the Duo Security API and sends CEF-formatted syslog.
Contributions:36 commits, 1 push, 6 comments in 2 years 7 months
apisecurityapi-securityauthenticationsyslog
libresec/geo-ip-maltego
Dec 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:16 commits in 1 year 1 month
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