Nicole Schwartz - AmazonV

Nicole Schwartz (CircuitSwan) speaks about Information Security, DevSecOps, Agile, Diversity & Inclusion, and Women in Technology.

She is currently the Senior Security Product Manager ActiveState, researcher at The Internet of Dongs, Board Member and organizer at The Diana Initiative and one of the organizers for BSides Edmonton and the SkyTalks village at DEF CON.

She resides in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada with her partner, 2 tuxedo cats and a giant rabbit.

She holds a Master of Science in Information Technology from Clarkson University.  

She was formerly Product Manager for GitLab's Secure Composition Analysis team, Scrum Master and Agile Coach for GEICO, Technical Product Manager at Rackspace for the Rackspace Public Cloud Control Panel (2011-2017), owner of The Devotea USA tea company, one of the organizers for the SkyTalks village at DEF CON, member of the board for Hacksburg (a local non-profit makerspace), and teacher for Let's Code Blacksburg and Hacksburg.

Her former handle was AmazonV

She has been attending information security (hacker) conventions since age 17, enjoys home brewing, shooting, whiskey, rabbits and crafting.  She has the first TARDIS corset, by MayFaire Moon, and that was turned into the BoobyTrap by WarCollar Industries.

My Tweets Are My Own (or “#MTAMO”) - In general everything AmazonV is MY OWN, not that of a company I have worked for, do work for, or will work for.

Find me:

https://sites.google.com/view/circuitswan/

https://linktr.ee/amazonv