Josh Hixson
Engineering Manager Product Security at Squarespace
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Hixson is an engineering leader specializing in product and enterprise security with 13 years in information security and nearly two decades of web and software experience. Currently an Engineering Manager for Product Security at Squarespace, he has built IAM, vulnerability management, and secure access programs while leading teams that protect internal assets and support remote/BYOD work. Previously he established cloud-native IT and security at Octane Lending as the first security hire and led encryption, cert automation, and web hardening efforts at Tumblr. Josh combines hands-on technical depth (from endpoint management to application security controls) with program-level strategy and compliance experience, plus early-career systems and modeling work from Northrop Grumman that informs his rigorous, engineering-first approach.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
California Academy of Mathematics and ScienceBachelor of Science (B.S.), Logic and Computation, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Logic and Computation at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (13)
bandit9
ldap-client9
security8
lastpass8
pentest7
python7
security-scanner7
api-client7
python-client7
linter7
static-code-analysis6
ldap5
cybersecurity5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
OctaneLending/lpconnector
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Python client for syncing LastPass Enterprise with a remote directory over LDAP
Contributions:24 commits, 10 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 months
api-clientlastpass-enterpriselastpasspythonsyncing
jixson12/dotfiles
Sep 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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