Danny Bain

About Danny Bain

Engineering leader with technical focus in identity systems and security for multi-company, federated compliance supply-chains (zero trust, GRC, lifecycle). Also multi-decade experience in information retrieval (search, experimentation, ML models), data storage, network infrastructure. Mr. Bain has been working in the software services industry and at several wireless and mobile software startups. His start in services leadership was as the first development manager for bing.com (then called search.msn.com), growing into modern search technologies used across Microsoft. After a role running the External Fulfillment technology teams at Amazon, Mr. Bain returned to Microsoft for the redevelopment and launch of bing.com, and then joined Tableau as the first services-first engineering manager. Mr. Bain was the Engineering Leader that launched Tableau Online and the company\'s move from a Windows shrink-wrapped software to a modern cloud-native cross-platform business. Most recently he is an Engineering Leader in Microsoft\'s Cloud+AI division specializing in governance, compliance and security.

Experience

1. Platform Security Engineering Leader

   F5

   Jun 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Management and development for product security features that cover hardware and software products. Responsibilities include GRC, Common Criteria, FIPS, cryptographic and security roadmap, architecture, threat and incident response.

Skills

• Architecture
• Tableau
• Software Development
• C#
• Unix
• Architectures
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Project Management
• Web Services
• Saas
• Data Visualization
• Cloud Computing
• Mobile Devices
• Distributed Systems
• C++
• Software Project Management
• Hadoop
• Agile Project Management
• System Architecture
• Databases