The SafeStack Faculty
Advising and Contributing to the SafeStack Educational Programs.
Guided by experts
Application security is a broad and complex space, including a rapidly changing list of technologies and architectures.
We have assembled an advisory board and faculty to work with us to support our education programs and ensure that our learners get the best, accurate advice relevant to their technology choices.
Our faculty are specialists and experts in their technologies and fields. They are authors, teachers, speakers, and practitioners from around the world, each focused on a specific technology, architecture or software development approach.
Meet the faculty
Find out more about our faculty advisors and their work.
Liran Tal (Node.js)
Available Services
Presentations and Workshops about Node.js security topics
Known for his open source and JavaScript security initiatives, Liran Tal is an award-winning software developer, security researcher, and open source champion in the JavaScript community.
He's an internationally recognized GitHub Star, acknowledged for his open source advocacy, and has received the OpenJS Foundation's Pathfinder for Security for his work on Node.js security.
His contributions to developer security education include leading OWASP projects, building supply chain security tools, participation in CNCF and OpenSSF initiatives, and authoring books such as O'Reilly's Serverless Security.
He leads the developer advocacy team at Snyk.io and is on a mission to empower developers with better application security skills.
Sarah Young (Microsoft Azure)
Available Services
1:1 coaching
Training and advice for your team
Presentations and workshops on various security topics
Sarah is a cyber security advocate where she engages with individuals and organizations worldwide to share her knowledge and experience in cyber security.
As a cloud security expert, Sarah's mission is to educate and empower communities to do the right things securely with the technology they implement.
She has also authored white papers and books on various cyber security topics and is a co-host of the popular Microsoft Azure Security Podcast.
Sarah is an accomplished public speaker and has delivered presentations at various industry events including Black Hat. She is passionate about supporting the security communities across the globe and promoting diversity and inclusion in IT.
Tim McNamara (Rust)
Available Services
1:1 coaching
Training and advice for your team
Code and architecture review
Tim learned to program so he could assist with humanitarian disasters around the world from New Zealand (ask how this helps).
You may know Tim as the author of Rust in Action, an introduction to Rust for programmers who have never used a systems programming language, or through his online moniker, TimClicks.
He's one of the world's leading Rust educators and has provided in-house and remote training for companies worldwide through his company Accelerant.dev.
His talks, videos, articles, and social media accounts have introduced Rust to hundreds of thousands of people. Before Rust, his area of expertise was predominantly natural language processing and machine learning with the Python data science stack. His career has included time at AWS, Canonical, and several smaller companies with a data engineering and/or data science focus.
Books
Stephen Rees-Carter (PHP and Laravel)
Available Services
1:1 coaching
Training and advice for your team
Code and architecture review
Stephen is a security consultant and crusted-on PHP developer who spends his days hacking into his clients websites (and telling them how he does it), and teaching Laravel and PHP developers how to think like a hacker through his talks, course, and mailing list.
His conference talks have been described as "terrifying magic tricks", that show just how easy it is to hack into a vulnerable site and cause mayhem.
Join our faculty
SafeStack actively seeks expressions of interest from secure coding and development experts.
Please apply if you have proven experience securing any of the listed technologies, and we can chat.
Benefits
Play both an advisory role for SafeStack
Be part of a unique gathering of security experts across software development technologies.
Paid opportunities for contribution to our courses and resources
Generate referrals to your business, book or products
Current Technology Vacancies:
.NET / C#
AWS
Google Cloud
Docker and Kubernetes
Java
GoLang
Python (including Django and Flask)
Software Architecture
DevSecOps
Software Supply Chain Security