Summary
Joe Basirico is a seasoned security engineering leader with over a decade of experience reducing application risk for Fortune 500 companies and building high-performing teams that deliver security services, research, and products. He has scaled security organizations across startups and hyperscalers—most recently leading product security at Highspot, senior management at Amazon, and now directing Security Engineering at Shopify—bridging product, engineering, and business priorities. Known for blending deep technical expertise with pragmatic risk balancing, he has overseen penetration testing, code review, SDL gap analysis, and security product development (CMD+CTRL) at Security Innovation. Joe’s background includes hands-on engineering early in his career at Microsoft and a long-term commitment to security education and enabling teams to build secure software quickly. Colleagues describe him as a builder of talent and processes who makes security an enabler rather than a blocker.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Montana State University-Bozeman