49er Industry Chats: Careers in Computer Security

A Career in Computer Security

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Travis McPeak '10

Engineering Manager, Netflix

Travis works at Netflix as an application security manager. He enjoys building automation that increases security while simultaneously boosting developer productivity. Travis is a primary developer of the Bandit and Repokid open source projects and has presented at security conferences including BlackHat USA, Enigma, and re:Invent. He currently serves as the Bay Area OWASP Chapter Lead, a security advisor for startups, and a mentor for people looking to get into the security field. In previous roles he has served on the OpenStack Security team and as a founding member of the Cloud Foundry Security Team.