Simon Merrick
Formerly an engineer at Trade Me, Simon is a Senior SRE experienced in building and securing cloud native software and infrastructure in the Payments Industry. His passion is the intersection of technological and interpersonal challenges of getting code from commit to production, safely, securely and on demand - especially in regulated sectors such as Payments.
As developers, we have a responsibility to keep the data of our company and our users safe, secure and private. The cybersecurity domain is vast, and the threats are ever-changing and as developers we have features to deliver and deadlines to meet, and a whole host of other concerns and tradeoffs to juggle. Short of retraining as cybersecurity professionals, how can we as Python developers do our part to help keep ourselves, our customers and our data safe? In this talk, we'll look at the ways developers commonly fall short, and just how simple it can be to drastically reduce the "oops factor" of our Python development lifecycle through automation and tooling.