Summary
Tad Glines is a senior software engineer with 16 years of professional experience and decades-long expertise in secure, production-grade software for enterprise and defense environments. At Microsoft he leads Linux security efforts—owning AzSecPack deployed on over a million nodes and driving Linux audit/IDS work and security baselines—bridging deep systems knowledge with pragmatic delivery. His background includes developing mission-critical tools for DoD and national security customers, building remote execution agents, cross-domain transfer systems, and multi-cloud IPSec prototypes. Tad balances strategic vision with hands-on engineering, shipping features under real-world constraints of time, cost, and compliance. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he pairs a security-first mindset with low-level Linux and infrastructure craftsmanship that often surfaces in open-source integrations and large-scale monitoring deployments.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer