Our Speakers

 Hasan Yasar is the Technical Director of Continuous Deployment of  Capability group in Software Engineering Institute, CMU. Hasan leads an  engineering group to enable, accelerate and assure Transformation at the  speed of relevance by leveraging, DevSecOps, Agile, Lean AI/ML and  other emerging technologies to create a Smart & Secure Software  Platform/Pipeline. Hasan has more than 25 years’ experience as senior  security engineer, software engineer, software architect and manager in  all phases of secure software development and information modeling  processes. He is also Adjunct Faculty member in CMU Heinz Collage and  Institute of Software Research where he currently teaches “Software and  Security” and “DevOps: Engineering for Deployment and Operations”. 

 Mahmut Furkan Bodur is a cybersecurity professional specializing in Application Security and DevSecOps, with experience working in both the United States and Türkiye. He currently leads the DevSecOps initiatives at Ziraat Finance Group, where he pioneered the organization’s DevSecOps structure and played a key role in establishing a strong security culture from the ground up. He is also an active contributor to the DevSecOps community and was part of the organizing team of DevSecOps Days Istanbul. 

 Yusuke  Nirahara has led and contributed to business and technology consulting  engagements at Accenture and BrainPad, specializing in strategic  transformation and the advanced utilization of AI and data. Since 2020,  he has co-organized DevSecOps Days Tokyo with Hasan Yaşar, contributing  to the advancement of secure software development practices in Japan.  Since 2021, he has also played a key role in organizing picoCTF in Japan  (known as CognitiveHack Japan), a cybersecurity education program  developed by Carnegie Mellon University, dedicated to cultivating the  next generation of cybersecurity professionals.

At  HRD, Inc., he applies insights from personality psychology to executive  development and organizational design. He also serves as Executive Vice  President at Cognitive Research Laboratories, Inc.

He is  currently a part-time lecturer at the University of Tokyo, where he  teaches cybersecurity practices—including CTF and DevSecOps—while  designing and facilitating peer-based learning environments.

He is the author of two books: The Easiest Guide to Machine Learning Projects (2019, Impress) and The Way to Gain Antibodies Against Cyberattacks (2021, Cyzo).

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Professor Marios Savvides is the Bossa Nova Robotics Professor of  Artificial Intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University and is also the  founder and director of the Biometrics Center at Carnegie Mellon  University and a full tenured professor in the Electrical and Computer  Engineering Department. 
His research is focused on developing core  AI and machine-learning algorithms that were successfully applied for  robust face detection, face recognition, iris biometrics, and most  recently, general object detection and scene understanding. He and his  team were the first in the world to develop a long-range iris capture  and matching system capable of acquiring irises up to 12m away in an  unconstrained manner. His recent work includes ranking first in Vision  for Intelligent Vehicles and Applications competition for hand detection  on steering wheels in natural challenging driving conditions. Some of  his recent work can detect heavily occluded faces and objects in general  under very challenging real-world conditions, developing low-shot  object detection and recognition utilizing only a small number of  images. 

Kyle Fox joined SOSi in 2022 as the founding Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He leads SOSi’s technology, cyber security, research, and innovation strategies. He brings critical experience in cyber-physical systems, cyber security, supply chain security, cloud native architecture, DevSecOps, zero trust techniques, and digital engineering which will enable SOSi to deliver critical capabilities at the speed relevancy to its customers and stakeholders.
Prior to joining SOSi, Kyle was the Chief Software Officer (CSO) for the U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapon Center ICBM modernization program where he led the hardware/software technology development for the latest hypersonics, supply chain security, secure computing, power grid resiliency, quantum resistant encryption, Cloud, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. Kyle was the founding Chief Software Engineer (CSE) for the Department of the Airforce and served as the CSE for the $96 billion U.S. Air Force Sentinel Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) / Sentinel ICBM modernization program, where he was responsible for more than 1,000 software engineers and spearheaded the development of the first cloud native nuclear weapon system program and the first major weapon system in the DoD to leverage a complete DevSecOps delivery methodology.
Kyle is a frequent speaker and advisor for both federal and industry teams. He received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) where he focused on embedded electronics and radar. 

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 James is the CEO of DryRun Security, where he and his team built a team of AI-powered Contextual Security Agents that dryrun your code before it gets merged. They enforce policy,  detect vulnerabilities (including logic flaws most tools miss), and  provide real insight that appsec & eng teams need.

He draws on  lessons from distributed systems and Promise Theory to show how  explicit commitments between agents lead to security, resilience, and  trust at scale. Over his career, he's built application security  programs, advanced DevSecOps practices, and helped organizations  reimagine how security fits into fast-moving engineering environments.,

James  has taught 1M+ professionals through his popular DevOps courses on  LinkedIn Learning and has delivered talks at leading conferences,  including RSA Conference, OWASP, and SXSW. He lives in Austin, TX, and  keeps trying to make the perfect smoked brisket.