Panel: Practical Security

Join us to continue the conversation around the track theme of practical security, the panel discusses current and future challenges and security issues facing security engineers, practitioners and organizations.

We'll talk about effectively and practically-applicable ways to make rubber hit the road when it comes to making a tangible impact on security posture, while balancing organizational goals. How do we build security systems that scale as the threat landscape evolves around us? How do we enable our organizations, balance security risk and ensure that security investment effectively delivers assurance and risk reduction at the high-velocity of software development?


Speaker

Aditi Gupta

Staff Security Software Engineer @Netflix

Aditi Gupta is currently a Staff security software engineer at Netflix where she leads the anti-DDoS efforts and builds scalable services to address the fraud and abuse landscape at Netflix. She holds a PhD from Purdue University in the field of system security and has built several scalable and resilient systems to solve security problems in her previous roles.

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Speaker

Travis McPeak

Founder and CEO @ResourcelyInc, previously @Netflix & @Databricks

Travis is a security leader with over a decade of experience spanning application and cloud security. He enjoys building scalable security teams that empower developers by making security automatic and easy. Travis is a founder and CEO at Resourcely and previously led teams and projects at large cloud-first companies including Netflix and Databricks. Travis loves working with startups and serves as an advisor and angel investor in over a dozen companies.

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Speaker

Nimisha Asthagiri

Principal Consultant @Thoughtworks, Previously Chief Architect & Senior Director of Engineering @edX

Nimisha Asthagiri is a Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks, a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design and engineering to transform enterprises to modern digital businesses. Prior, she was Chief Architect and Senior Director of Engineering at edX, driving intentional architecture for the next generation of large-scale online learning. She is a long-term technologist who values innovations that result from the amplification of diverse voices and the synergism of collective strength. Her past accomplishments include leading the security of a peer-to-peer group communications platform at Groove Networks.

 

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Speaker

Alex Smolen

Director of Security @LaunchDarkly, previously Engineering Manager @Clever, Engineer @Twitter, Security Consultant @Foundstone

Alex Smolen is an engineering leader with over a decade of experience on security-focused engineering teams. He is currently Director of Security for LaunchDarkly, the industry-leading feature management service.

Previously, he was the Engineering Manager for Security and Infrastructure teams at Clever, an SSO platform used by over 50% of US K-12 schools. He was an engineer on the original Twitter security team, and a technical lead for features like two-factor and suspicious login detection. He was a security consultant at Foundstone, where he helped a wide range of software teams write secure code. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, and his Masters from the School of Information at UC Berkeley.

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