Tanya Janca, also known as SheHacksPurple, is the head of community and education at Semgrep and the best-selling author of Alice and Bob Learn Application Security. With more than 25 years of experience in coding, application security, and IT, Tanya has dedicated herself to "securing all the things.”

Tanya's career journey began in the Canadian government, where she initially served as a software developer before transitioning to elections security, eventually becoming the IT security coordinator (CISO equivalent) of the 42nd general election in Canada.

Her time in the public sector led her to a pivotal career hack. Tanya refused to let her agency's limited travel budget hinder her cybersecurity education, so she seized countless speaking opportunities at cyber conferences in exchange for the free ticket. These conferences i ...