Greg Brownstein
Principal Security Services Architect at Palo Alto Networks
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Brownstein is a Principal Security Services Architect with two decades of experience turning complex infrastructure and security challenges into automated, business-focused solutions. He blends strategic leadership—currently at Palo Alto Networks and Venafi—with hands-on engineering, having led global DevOps and SRE teams at Deloitte to dramatically reduce build times and outages. Greg’s work emphasizes certificate and identity automation, hybrid cloud orchestration, and pragmatic tooling (including contributing OAuth support and refactors to a ServiceNow PowerShell module). Known for communicating technical concepts to diverse audiences, he pairs deep Windows and automation roots with modern cloud-native and security practices. Based in New Jersey, he’s equally at home scripting backend integrations as he is shaping enterprise security strategy.
10 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Rutgers University
Github Skills (10)
powershell10
servicenow10
oauth10
azure-automation8
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Snow-Shell/servicenow-powershell
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
PowerShell module to automate ServiceNow service and asset management. This module can be used standalone or with Docker.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 4 reviews, 163 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily focused on updating and improving the functionality of the ServiceNow PowerShell module. Their contributions involved modifying existing PowerShell scripts, including `New-ServiceNowIncident.ps1` and `New-ServiceNowChangeRequest.ps1`, to move to an organization's internal structure, refactoring code, and adding support for OAuth authentication. They also made changes to internal functions and modules to improve the module's overall performance and incorporate best practices, such as removing global variables.
dockerpowershell-moduleservicenowpowershelloauth
gdbarron/MachineIdentityExtension
Apr 2021 - Apr 2023
Venafi Machine Identity Extension for Azure DevOps Pipelines
Contributions:14 PRs, 69 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years
azure-devops-pipelinesazure-devopscertificatesdevsecopsmachine-identity
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