Andrew Krug is a Security Engineer for Mozilla Corporation working on Cloud Security and Identity and Access Management. Krug also works as a Cloud Security consultant and started the ThreatResponse project a toolkit for Amazon Web Services first responders. Krug has been a speaker at Black Hat USA, DerbyCon, and BSides PDX.

Elaine is an engineer at Global Financial Access, a company that works on cryptographic integrity for smart contracts. She is a core developer for Ethereum Classic and contributor at Bloomberg View. Previously she was co-founder of Sand Hill Exchange, a Bitcoin bucket shop.

Have you seen a fire breathing dragon dual wield my little pony figurines? How about an IT Security employee with a burning passion for keeping users safe, and security fun and accessible? Siren Hofvander delivers on the latter and strives for the former in her daily job as CSO for Min Doktor. She specialises in building security into the SLDC and firmly believes that security is a task for everyone, not just the hacker elite. She also heads up the Malmö based IT Security group SecuriTea and is an avid forum contributor.

Steve Kosten is a Principal Security Consultant at Cypress Data Defense and an instructor for the SANS DEV541 Secure Coding in Java/JEE: Developing Defensible Applications course. He’s previously performed security work in the defense and financial sectors and led the security department for a financial services firm. At Cypress, Steve performs secure code review assessments, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and risk management reviews. He is also the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Denver chapter leader, and presents security talks at various conferences. Steve holds a bachelor of science in Aerospace Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Science in Information Security from James Madison University. He currently maintains GSSP-JAVA, GWAPT, CISSP, and CISM certifications.

Aaron is a security consultant and an instructor and contributing author for the DEV544 Secure Coding in .NET course. After ten years in the U.S. Army as a Russian Linguist and a Satellite Repair Technician he worked as a database administrator and programmer on the Iridium project, with subsequent positions as a telecommunications consultant, senior programmer, and security consultant.

At Puma Security, Aaron focuses on developing security rules, as well as leading research efforts for data flow and taint analysis.

Aaron holds the GIAC GSSP-.NET, GWAPT, GPEN, GMOB, and CISSP certifications and is located in Arvada, CO. Outside the office Aaron enjoys boating, travel, and playing hockey.

Alvaro Muñoz works as Principal Software Security Researcher with Microfocus, Software Security Research (SSR). His research focuses on different programming languages and web application frameworks searching for vulnerabilities or unsafe uses of APIs. Before joining the research team, he worked as an Application Security Consultant helping enterprises to deploy their application security programs. Muñoz has presented at many Security conferences including BlackHat, Defcon, RSA, AppSecEU, AppSecUSA, Protect, DISCCON, etc and holds several infosec certifications, including OSCP, GWAPT and CISSP, and is a proud member of int3pids CTF team. He blogs at http://www.pwntester.com.

Karolina bridges the technology, business innovation and psychology worlds. She acts as technical executive and a catalyst fostering curiosity to help lead the adaptation to rapidly changing IT environments and to drive organizational agility. Karolina has been supporting companies in driving complex digital transformations, building and executing high growth strategies, introducing emerging technologies, innovative products and services for global international brands as well as hacking growth with startups around the world.
Recognized in 2017, as one of top 20 Women in #fintech.

Karolina is guest speaker at global focus conferences, and universities; author of many publications and books.

Laszlo Boa is an IBM Cloud Architect (Bluemix) for Central and Eastern Europe at IBM.

Nikolas is a polyglot developer and GraphQL enthusiast. He graduated from university with a Master’s degree in Management of Information System and has worked as an iOS developer for bigger companies like SAP, smaller startups and as a freelancer. He loves to share his knowledge and has worked as an iOS Instructor at the Make School Product College in San Francisco before he joined Graphcool in January.