Jose Palafox is a Strategic Application Security Executive at GitHub, where responsibilities include leading application security initiatives and managing technical integrations with various security platforms. Previously, Jose served as a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Intel Corporation, focusing on Kubernetes and custom engineering for hardware accelerators. As a Product Manager at Cisco, Jose defined application hosting and DevOps integrations for service provider routing platforms. At Puppet Labs, Inc., Jose worked as a Business Development Manager, facilitating technical integrations to enhance DevOps management tools. Jose holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Reed College and an Associate of Arts in Political Science from Sierra College.