Zach Musgrave
Director Of Engineering, Security Platform
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Musgrave is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling security and infrastructure systems at Yelp, now serving as Director of Engineering for the Security Platform. He blends deep expertise in cloud and data security, identity and access management, and detection engineering with hands-on distributed systems experience, driving projects that materially reduced cost and risk (e.g., major Splunk consolidations and Glacier savings). Zach leads multi-team organizations, codifying repeatable processes—like org-wide threat hunting, formalized threat modeling, and SlackOps playbooks—that shift security from ad hoc to predictable. He partners broadly across SRE, ML, audit, and executive stakeholders to align security controls with business goals and developer productivity. Notably, he has a track record of automating high-impact controls at scale (credential rotation across thousands of IAM keys, SSH/sudo least-privilege for ~5,000 servers) while mentoring engineers to own initiatives. Based in San Francisco, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with a pragmatic, cross-functional approach to keeping companies “out of the news.”
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS BA Computer Science English Writing, BS BA Computer Science English Writing at Clemson UniversityMS Computer Science and Engineering, MS Computer Science and Engineering at University of MichiganHempfield Area Senior High School
Github Skills (70)
dashboard10
monitoring10
data-visualization10
mysql10
yelp10
hbase9
grafana9
influxdb9
elasticsearch9
visualization9
visualize9
amazon-web-services9
sensu9
analytics9
composable9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zachm/tscached
Jan 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:176 commits, 25 PRs, 130 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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zachm/statsd
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:7 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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