Summary
Jose Barrios is a security engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and leading teams across privacy engineering, IAM, and infrastructure security, currently shaping security strategy at Instacart from Vancouver. He blends hands-on full-stack development chops (and a well-documented fondness for VIM) with leadership roles at Salesforce, Hootsuite, Procurify and a prior tech startup he founded, giving him both enterprise and entrepreneurial perspectives. His background in psychology and computer science informs a pragmatic, user-aware approach to secure system design and access controls. Known for moving between product growth, DevSecOps and identity-focused security, he repeatedly turns complex distributed-system challenges into operational, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience