PyCon AU 2025

Simon Merrick

Simon is a Senior SRE at Stronghold Pay with a background in software development with Python. Previously Simon was a contributor to OpenStack, an open source cloud platform written in Python which sparked his joy for Cloud and DevOps. Coming from a software development background Simon approached his cloud Journey like learning python - through writing code to build and automate cloud infrastructure.


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Session

09-14
14:50
30min
Reducing the "Oops Factor": Pipelines for a Secure Python Development Lifecycle
Simon Merrick

The cyber threat landscape is vast, deep and ever-changing. 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 current threat landscape, the ways developers commonly fall short, and just how simple it can be to drastically reduce the "oops factor" of our Python development lifecycle.

Main Conference
Ballroom 1