Education and Community
Tanya Janca, also known as SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling author of ‘Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’. She is the Director of Developer Relations and Community at Bright Security, as well as the founder of We Hack Purple, an online learning academy, community and podcast that revolves around teaching everyone to create secure software. Tanya has been coding and working in IT for over twenty five years, won countless awards, and has been everywhere from public service to tech giants, writing software, leading communities, founding companies and ‘securing all the things’. She is an award-winning public speaker, active blogger & streamer and has delivered hundreds of talks on 6 continents. She values diversity, inclusion, and kindness, which shines through in her countless initiatives.
Security
With over 17 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry, I am a Security Relations Leader at Snyk, a leading cloud-native application security platform that helps developers find and fix vulnerabilities in their applications and containers. I work with the developer and security communities to raise awareness, educate, and enable them to build secure software faster and better.
