// about

From the access layer to the assembly line.

I'm Grioghar Thomas-Baldwin. Professionally I solve the gnarly problems at the boundary between people and infrastructure — secure access, endpoint security, and security automation. Personally I write the kind of software that has no abstraction left beneath it: codecs, daemons, container tooling, and remote-desktop protocols.

That combination is the point. Years of being the engineer customers escalate to taught me how systems actually fail in production — and that knowledge goes straight back into the tools I build. I care about software that ships, runs unattended, and doesn't surprise you at 3 a.m.

When I close the laptop, I open the DAW. I produce house and breaks as DerGrioEnHousen — which is also why one of my favorite repos is a real-time MIDI visualizer for OBS.

// experience

Career Timeline

Recent
Support Engineer · BlinkOps

Supporting a no-code/low-code security automation (SOAR) platform — helping teams turn security workflows into running automations, and debugging the integrations where they meet the real world.

Prior
Senior Technical Account Manager · SentinelOne

Owned the technical relationship for enterprise customers running SentinelOne's autonomous endpoint protection — guiding deployments, tuning detection and response, and translating between security operators and the product.

Prior
Solutions / Support Engineering · StrongDM

Worked on infrastructure access management — the control plane that brokers and audits engineer access to databases, servers, and Kubernetes. Built onboarding automation in Terraform, SSH-session-to-SIEM streaming, and shell tooling (several of these are public on my GitHub).

2022
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

The advanced AWS architecture certification — designing distributed, fault-tolerant, cost-aware systems across the AWS platform.

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What I Reach For

Systems & Languages

  • C++17
  • C
  • Go
  • Objective-C
  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • PHP 8
  • Python
  • Bash / PowerShell

Platforms

  • macOS / Apple frameworks
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • iOS
  • Android
  • Docker

Cloud & Infra

  • AWS (SA Pro)
  • Terraform
  • MySQL / MariaDB
  • Apache
  • CI/CD · GitHub Actions
  • DreamHost

Security & Access

  • Infrastructure access (StrongDM)
  • EDR / XDR (SentinelOne)
  • Security automation (BlinkOps)
  • TLS / crypto
  • SIEM integration

Media & Signal

  • JPEG / PNG codecs
  • H.264 / VideoToolbox
  • MP4 / MOV containers
  • MIDI / SysEx / OSC
  • Audio DSP

Product

  • SaaS architecture
  • Stripe billing
  • OAuth
  • REST / OpenAPI
  • Cross-platform packaging