CircuitSwan
Nicole Schwartz (a.k.a. CircuitSwan) speaks about Information Security, DevSecOps, Software Supply Chain Security, Agile, Diversity & Inclusion, and Women in Technology.
She is currently a Senior Security Product Manager at ActiveState, researcher at The Internet of Dongs, the Chair of the board and Chief Operating Officer for The Diana Initiative, Organizer of BSides Edmonton, organizer of Skytalks.
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 a Product Manager at GitLab, 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, 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.
Upcoming Events:
August
Diana Initiative https://www.dianainitiative.org/ Organizer
Skytalks https://skytalks.info/ at BSidesLV https://bsideslv.org/ Organizer
SQUADCON https://blackgirlshack.org/event-5495307 Attendee
DEF CON https://defcon.org/ Attendee & Meetup Organizer
August 24 - BSides Saskatoon https://bsidesyxe.ca/ Speaker
September 23-24 BSides Edmonton https://www.bsidesedmonton.ca/ Organizer
Find Me:
http://amazonv.net - tea blog
http://twitter.amazonv.net - twitter
https://www.tiktok.com/@circuitswan - tiktok
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYkSaBD6pJT-7LpZJ5n8j_Q - YouTube
https://www.patreon.com/circuitswan - patreon
https://www.twitch.tv/amazonv - Twitch
https://infosec.exchange/web/@circuitswan - Mastadon
Most active projects
https://www.dianainitiative.org/ Deputy Chief Operating Officer in charge of Pre-Event Planning - Staff
Tips for running an event or conference - https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/111BDPHFr7pY9PM8jz8PU-RHnvEen6ls5
Common Links
Death and Digital Death https://sites.google.com/site/amazonv/on-death?authuser=0
CFP tips https://sites.google.com/site/amazonv/conference-call-for-papers-cfp-tips?authuser=0
First time speaker tips https://sites.google.com/site/amazonv/first-time-speaker?authuser=0
First conference tips https://sites.google.com/site/amazonv/first-conference?authuser=0
http://github.com/nicoleschwartz
Learning to code / hack https://github.com/NicoleSchwartz/Learning-to-code-resources
Reading on Diversity
Need to restart projects
Tea blog https://amazonv.blogspot.com/
About my getting Canadian Permanent Residency https://amazonv.dreamwidth.org/tag/permanent+residency
Communities
Run Hacker Cons Slack - One Slack, with one channel per conference with the goal to reduce slacks (it's not helping/working)
WAN-Party Discord (Women and Non-Binary)
ACNH Techies Discord
Currently on hold projects
Hacker Foodies dinners
Hacker Swan events
https://hackerconticketexchange.com #HackerConTicketExchange