Josh Giese
Principal Security Engineer at Esri
Redlands, California, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Giese is a Principal Security Engineer with 11+ years focused on Identity, Access Management, and CIAM, currently leading security efforts at Esri. A serial entrepreneur and founder of venntov, he built commercial Shopify apps and authored a practical guide to Shopify SEO, blending product strategy with hands-on development. His career spans full-stack engineering, IAM architecture, and product ownership, reflecting deep experience turning security requirements into usable enterprise features. Beyond engineering, he’s taught iOS development, toured nationally as a hardcore punk frontman, and is an avid maker and Level 50 Pokémon Go trainer—an unusual mix that underscores his creative problem-solving and relentless hustle.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
vscode-extension10
shopify9
shopify-api9
design-tokens9
flesch-kincaid9
typescript9
component-library9
figma-plugin9
react9
rest-api8
markup-language8
monolog8
dotenv7
googleapis7
graphql6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JoshHighland/codeigniter-monolog-plus
Feb 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
monologcodeigniterplus
JoshHighland/JoshHighland.github.io
Aug 2023 - Jan 2026
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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