Joe Basirico
Director Of Security Engineering at Shopify
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJoe 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.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Montana State University-Bozeman
Stackoverflow
1,955reputation
374kreached
26answers
2questions
Github Skills (30)
testing10
dotnet10
out-of-memory10
devsecops9
vulnerability-management9
security9
security-automation9
django9
python9
windows9
static-site9
owasp9
automation9
fault-injection8
analytics8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SecurityInnovation/Holodeck
Jul 2014 - Nov 2017
Holodeck is a Fault Injection tool for testing Windows binaries and .NET applications. Holodeck utilizes fault-injection techniques to introduce the application to simulated scenarios that arise as the result of "broken" environments, such as out of memory conditions, corrupt files, bad registry data, or corrupted network packets.
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 3 years 5 months
dotnetfault-injectionout-of-memorytestingwindows
joebasirico/Joe_CMS
Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.