Joe Basirico

Director of Engineering

Seattle, Washington, United States24 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

Over 15 years of experience in application security.
Led teams to deliver high-value security services.
Expert in building secure products for Fortune 500 companies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert with extensive experience in application security and team leadership.

Contact

joe.basirico@shopify.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Application Security

Other Skills

.NETASP.NETAgileApplication DevelopmentArchitectureArchitecture/Design ReviewC#C++Cloud ComputingCode ReviewComputer ScienceComputer SecurityCryptographyHTMLJava

About

I have over 15 years of of experience helping Fortune 500 companies reduce their overall application risk by understanding and balancing business drivers and deep technical concepts. I have built a team of some of the best application security experts and developers in the country, helping Security Innovation grow into a leading cybersecurity business. My engineering team regularly delivers high value security services, research, and products. I love helping our customers build secure products.

Experience

24 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

6 mos

Current Experience

Shopify

Director of Security Engineering

Dec 2025 – Present · 6 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

Helping to build and lead an incredible team while helping build secure, scalable systems that empower millions of entrepreneurs around the world.

Amazon

Senior Manager

Sep 2023 – Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

Threat ModelingApplication Security

Highspot

Senior Director of Product Security

Jan 2021 – Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid

I help Highspot deliver a secure product that our customers can trust. I work across many teams to help ensure that each person is enabled to build secure software quickly and easily.

Threat ModelingApplication Security

Security innovation

2 roles

Senior Vice President Of Engineering

Apr 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

As Senior VP of Engineering I'm responsible for the success of our Assessment Services as well as the development of our CMD+CTRL product. Considering my many years with SI I have my hands in many aspects of the day to day business.

Computer ScienceThreat ModelingApplication Security

VP of Services

Oct 2002 – Apr 2018 · 15 yrs 6 mos

I am responsible for Security Innovation's Professional Services offerings. I help our services team deliver the best security assessments possible. We perform Penetration Testing, Code Review, Architecture/Design Review, SDL Gap Analysis and Instructor Led Training to help our clients ship more secure software.

Computer ScienceThreat ModelingApplication Security

Technically learning

VP of Technology

Oct 2006 – Jul 2013 · 6 yrs 9 mos

The members of TechnicallyLearning feel that all students should have the opportunity to discover how fun and inspiring the science, technology, engineering and math fields can be. To that end we provide hands on learning activities and resources, to teachers and students, which will help kids to excel in these fields and seek out this knowledge on their own.
Vision:
All people have the opportunity and resources to excel in science, technology, engineering and math fields.
Mission:
The mission of Technically Learning is to enable teachers to inspire and engage students in science, technology, engineering, and math subjects (STEM). We strive to increase the participation of populations that are underrepresented in STEM fields. We provide hands-on learning activities and resources that integrate with existing school curriculum requirements.
In July of 2013 Technically Learning merged with code.org. For more information see our homepage and merger letter here: http://technicallylearning.org/ or please see http://code.org.