Armed with a Master’s degree, with over 6 years in the trenches of application and cloud security at scale, she currently brings her talents to helping teams think like attackers before the attackers do. Based in Austin, Texas, Apoorwa is part of a new wave of security professionals. She likes mentoring junior engineers to influencing the, about their career goals by offering variety of things such as resume review, interview prep guidance, self branding, career planning etc. When she’s not taming threats or refactoring risk, she enjoys playing ping pong and spending time with her cat. Ask her about: threat modeling, secure architecture, DevSecOps, or how to sneak security into sprint planning without getting side-eyes.