State of Open Source Security With Alyssa Miller

Alyssa Miller

Alyssa Miller been a hacker, programmer, and advocate since she bought her first computer at age 12 and taught herself BASIC programming. Her career began in programming and later pivoted to security as a penetration tester. She has 15 yrs. experience in security and leadership across enterprise, consulting, and security product roles.

Alyssa crusades against imposter syndrome and advocates for aspiring security professionals trying to find a path into security. She’s a researcher, author and internationally recognized speaker. Her advocacy extends to ensuring diverse representation from all backgrounds in security. She’s a member of the WiCyS racial equity committee, a WoSEC chapter leader and presenter for She Speaks Security at RSA 2020. She is currently a security advocate for Snyk.

Matt Stratton (he/him)

Matty Stratton is the Director of Developer Relations at Aiven, a well-known member of the DevOps community, and a global organizer of the DevOpsDays set of conferences.

Matty has over 20 years of experience in IT operations and is a sought-after speaker internationally, presenting at Agile, DevOps, and cloud engineering focused events worldwide. Demonstrating his keen insight into the changing landscape of technology, he recently changed his license plate from DEVOPS to KUBECTL.

He lives in Chicago and has three awesome kids, whom he loves just a little bit more than he loves Diet Coke.

Jessica Kerr

Jessitron is a symmathecist in the medium of code. She works at Honeycomb in developer relations. She writes about software and system on her blog at Jessitron.com. She teaches workshops on Systems Thinking, and makes courses on Graceful.dev. She is into resilience engineering, domain-driven design, and of course DevOps – all the systems-thinky things. She lives in St. Louis, MO, where she raises two children and their cats. Find her also on >Code, and at conferences around the world.