Dan Shanahan

Field Security Products Director @ GitHub

San Diego, California, United States

About

Experience

  • GitHub (4 yrs 9 mos)
    • Field Services Director, Security Products
      Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

      I work closely with sales, product, and engineering to drive adoption, shape roadmap direction, and grow revenue. My focus is translating deep technical capabilities (CodeQL, secret scanning, supply chain security) into value for some of the world’s most security-conscious organizations. I lead GTM initiatives, run roadmap conversations, enable field teams, and represent customer needs back into product strategy.

    • Field Security Product Lead
      Feb 2025 - Apr 2025 · 3 mos

    • Principal Field Security Specialist
      Mar 2023 - Feb 2025 · 2 yrs

  • Intuit (7 yrs 2 mos)
    • Staff Software Engineer - Intuit Platform Security
      Dec 2019 - Oct 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

      My team enables Intuit developers to securely deliver world-class software. We do this by ensuring the security and integrity of our development processes through each phase of the Software Development Life Cycle. Right now, I'm working with a really great team of engineers to build out a data analytics and reporting platform which collects and analyzes metrics from our security scanning tools. This platform enables developers at Intuit to have visibility into the security posture of the code they're writing. Some of the tech I'm working with on this project: ° MongoDB ° Kubernetes ° Python for ETL, APIs, data movement, etc. ° Redshift ° Qlik Sense for BI dashboards ° React

    • Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Engineering
      2017 - Oct 2021 · 4 yrs 10 mos

      I get to design and build services that help my organization operate effectively in the Public Cloud. Some of the cool things I've been able to work with lately: * Go * Kubernetes * AWS API Gateway * AWS DocumentDB (MongoDB, just more Amazon-y) * GraphQL * Kinesis * Graph Databases like Neo4j and Amazon Neptune

    • Staff Network Engineer - Performance Analysis
      Sep 2014 - 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      • Develop and implement application performance monitoring infrastructure for TurboTax.com • Isolate and remediate network and application performance bottlenecks • Implement network monitoring solutions for Intuit infrastructure using industry standard tools including the Riverbed Performance Monitoring suite as well as open source and in-house developed software

  • Engineer - Network Performance Services at Target
    Feb 2012 - Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    Subject Matter Expert and Platform Owner for all packet capture and Data Acquisition Network hardware and software. Act in a tier 3+ support capacity for networked application performance issue identification and remediation engagements. Identify and report on traffic patterns within Target corporate networks using a variety of tools including packet capture, Netflow, SNMP, and reporting software.

  • Network Administrator at The Bergquist Company
    Mar 2005 - Feb 2012 · 7 yrs

    Analyze and design new network, storage, and server infrastructure according to business requirements. Maintain vendor and partner relationships to achieve business goals. Author proposals for capital expenditures to be presented to executive-level management. Monitor and maintain all aspects of corporate WAN and LAN for five domestic and three international locations. Develop and maintain all network documentation.