Joe Garcia
Principal Product Marketing Manager, Workload Identity at Palo Alto Networks
Tampa, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Garcia is a Principal Product Marketing Manager and former Principal DevOps Solutions Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience securing machine identities, secrets, and automation across cloud-native environments. He’s known for translating deep technical work—like backend contributions to the popular AWX Ansible project and CyberArk credential plugin integrations—into go-to-market strategies that help organizations eliminate static secrets and adopt Zero Trust workload identity. Based in Tampa, he bridges builders and CISOs by creating developer-friendly tooling while ensuring enterprise-grade controls through short-lived credentials and standards such as SPIFFE/SVID. Joe’s background ranges from vulnerability management and automation at financial services to leading workload identity messaging at CyberArk and Palo Alto Networks, giving him a rare mix of field engineering credibility and product storytelling. He’s passionate about converting machine identity from a security liability into a competitive advantage that accelerates delivery.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Attended Information Technology - Computer Network Systems, Attended Information Technology - Computer Network Systems at ITT Technical Institute
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Github Skills (22)
apim10
python10
django10
api10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
http-request9
ansible9
ansible-galaxy9
rest-api9
automations8
automation8
cyberark6
configurations6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/awx
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 12 commits, 8 PRs in 24 days
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the AWX project. Their work focused on credential plugin enhancements, specifically involving the CyberArk CCP integration. The user added, removed, and modified code related to the AIM (CyberArk's older system) and Conjur secret lookup plugins. They fixed bugs, added default values, and improved exception handling for API calls.
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infamousjoeg/authn-iam-ec2-demo
Jun 2021 - Jul 2024
A demonstration using @CyberArk Conjur's authn-iam integration with AWS EC2
Contributions:8 PRs, 14 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 1 month
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