Yanik Grignon
Principal Software Architect at Salesforce
Georgetown, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYanik Grignon is a Principal Software Architect with over a decade of experience leading data security and cloud initiatives at Salesforce, where he drives the vision and technical strategy for application- and row-level authorization across the platform. He combines deep technical craft—rooted in a Masters in Computer Science—with product leadership experience as a former Product Owner, enabling him to translate complex security requirements into pragmatic, scalable solutions. Known for shepherding Salesforce’s data security layer from implementation to platform-wide architecture, he blends systems-level thinking with hands-on engineering and cross-team influence. Based in Georgetown, Texas, he brings a background spanning telephony, cloud, and enterprise software dating back to early roles at Nortel and Nuance, and is comfortable balancing long-term vision with the operational details that make secure systems reliable.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
D.E.C. Pure and Applied Sciences, D.E.C. Pure and Applied Sciences at CEGEP Bois-de-BoulogneMasters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Université de MontréalComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal
English, French
Github Skills (9)
xacml5
wordpress5
heroku4
java4
apache3
metalsmith3
staging3
buildpack3
composer3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
ygrignon/incubator-openaz
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
javaincubatingapache
apache/incubator-retired-openaz
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1 commit, 1 PR in 1 day
javaincubatingapache
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